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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 139 - 211).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the newspapers Leonel buys to read?
(a) The Daily News.
(b) El Diario de Hoy.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) El Heraldo.

2. Which house did Forche stay in on her first nights in El Salvador?
(a) Blanca's house, which used to belong to a dictator.
(b) Claribel's house.
(c) Margarita's house.
(d) Leonel's house.

3. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?
(a) Miguel.
(b) Andre.
(c) Ramon.
(d) Oscar.

4. Who does Leonel ask Forche to write to to help vouch for him?
(a) Tom Anderson, another American writer.
(b) Claribel, Forche's friend.
(c) The U.S. ambassador to El Salvador.
(d) Leonel's ex-wife.

5. What does Forche see inside the prison that upsets her immensely?
(a) Men bleeding to death.
(b) Sexual abuse.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Men kept in very small boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margarita call Forche?

2. What does Leonel tell her about driving to the poorer neighborhoods during the rainy season?

3. Which grandmother of Forche's led a nomadic and unsettled life?

4. Which Central American poet did Forche translate work into English for when Forche was in her twenties?

5. What does Forche say when Leonel asks if she is a Catholic?

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