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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 295 - 384).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one effect of Forche's serious illness that she has to go to the hospital for in El Salvador?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She hallucinates.
(c) She bleeds profusely.
(d) She experiences wracking coughs.

2. What does Leonel make Forche for breakfast when he stays at her house in California?
(a) A perfect omelette.
(b) French toast.
(c) Salvadoran tortillas.
(d) Eggs Benedict.

3. What did the doctor at the first hospital Forche visits in El Salvador tell her before Forche goes to see it?
(a) The doctor thinks they are getting on well for what they have to work with.
(b) The doctor thinks the biggest problem in the country is drug addiction.
(c) The doctor does not know how to prepare Forche for what she is about to see.
(d) The doctor says that age-related blindness is her biggest challenge among patients.

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to pretend she is a nun?
(a) She could be found out, and the real nuns who had helped her could get in trouble.
(b) She does not look like a nun.
(c) She is not well-versed enough with Catholicism to pretend to be a nun.
(d) There are no nuns in El Salvador.

5. What does Leonel give to Forche right after she stays out past curfew, on page 325?
(a) A candlestick.
(b) A second weaving with a jaguar.
(c) A ring.
(d) A bag of almonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leonel tell Forche they cannot move the bodies they find in the street?

2. How does Forche write much of her work in El Salvador?

3. Where are Forche and Mattison living at the time they take in the former Salvadoran death squad member?

4. What does Leonel think of Margarita's husband?

5. Which novel did Claribel and Bud write that Forche reminds Leonel she has read?

(see the answer key)

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