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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Forche failed to do when she returned to El Salvador and things went badly wrong for her three times?

2. What is one of the things Leonel tells Forche Chacon does with his victims' bodies?

3. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?

4. What does Leonel tell Forche about the textiles in Guatemala?

5. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Forche come to understand about the nature of a person's life when that person joins a death squad?

2. Why do the women near Nabaj give Leonel their intricate weavings to take with him?

3. What changes Forche's feelings about meeting with the Salvadoran writers immediately after her horrific visit to Ahuachapan?

4. What does Forche see in the prison Ahuachapan that shakes her to her core?

5. What does Leonel tell Forche the Salvadorans did with the portable toilets the Americans tried to set up for them?

6. What does it mean to hang things on a tree in certain parts of El Salvador?

7. What happens to Forche and Margarita that shakes Forche to her core and produces great feelings of fear?

8. What does seeing Leonel with a mysterious woman seem to make Forche realize about her feelings for him?

9. What does Forche buy in large amounts in the discount store Gemco to take back to El Salvador with her?

10. Why does Leonel reject the idea of Forche pretending she is a nun while in El Salvador?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Leonel Gomez so fixated on the case of the American, Ronald Richardson, who disappeared some years earlier? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the unique and almost instantaneous bond between Forche and her future husband, Harry Mattison, based on the sharing of their experiences in El Salvador.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing how the stage of life and career Forche was in when Leonel first appeared on her doorstep in California contributed to her willingness and ability to travel to El Salvador for extended stays and to begin to bear witness to the turmoil and violence that wracked the country throughout the late 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

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