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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?
(a) Used them to build houses out of instead.
(b) Used them to build restaurants.
(c) Threw them in the ocean.
(d) Threw them in the dump.

2. What particular drug does Forche buy in bulk to take to El Salvador?
(a) Naxolone.
(b) Immodium.
(c) Correctol.
(d) Mifepristone.

3. What is one of the things Leonel tells Forche Chacon does with his victims' bodies?
(a) Feeds them to his dogs.
(b) Ships them out of the country.
(c) Keeps their ears.
(d) Sells their organs.

4. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?
(a) She is the daughter of a wealthy general and they want to kidnap her.
(b) She has spray-painted provocative art all over the city.
(c) She broadcasts on the Church's radio station, YSAX.
(d) She donates a lot of money to the resistance.

5. What does Forche borrow from Margarita that comes in handy later?
(a) Feminine hygiene products.
(b) A dress, shoes, and lipstick.
(c) A kite.
(d) Money.

6. When do the death squads do their work?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Any time of day or night.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) At night.

7. Who visits Fina's village under cloak of darkness while Forche is there?
(a) Oscar Romero.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) A spy with the CIA.
(d) A young Catholic priest.

8. Why do the Salvadoran poets ask Forche not to use their real names if she publishes their poems?
(a) They do not like their real names.
(b) They need to be able to leave the country and they will not be able to leave if people know they wrote the poems.
(c) They are afraid of what the government would do to them if they found out they wrote the poems.
(d) They are ashamed of their work.

9. Why does Forche have to tie her sweater around her neck in the prison?
(a) To hide her unusual birthmark.
(b) She is so upset that she broke out in hives and does not want anyone to see.
(c) To keep her pulse from quickening.
(d) A prisoner cuts her and she is bleeding.

10. Who does Leonel tell Forche usually sent actual supplies in aid to El Salvador?
(a) The Irish.
(b) The British.
(c) The Swedes.
(d) The Italians.

11. What does the American ambassador to El Salvador tell Forche when she asks him about Ronald Richardson?
(a) He says he has put his best investigator on the case.
(b) He says he is working very hard to figure out the case.
(c) He says he has already solved the case.
(d) He says he considers Richardson's disappearance unsolvable.

12. What does Leonel tell Forche about revolutions?
(a) They do not go according to plan.
(b) They are futile.
(c) They are expensive.
(d) They must come from the peasants.

13. How old was Leonel at the time Forche was making all her trips back and forth to El Salvador?
(a) About 50.
(b) About 37.
(c) About 45.
(d) About 25.

14. Why does Leonel take Forche to Ahuachapan?
(a) To eat the local cuisine.
(b) To observe the human rights abuses at the prison there.
(c) To meet his grandmother.
(d) To hike up a famous mountain.

15. What idea from Machiavelli tell Forche on page 185?
(a) With great power comes great responsibility.
(b) Nothing great was ever achieved without danger.
(c) Many times, people have to die in order for progress to be made.
(d) You need to bury your ego to achieve great things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?

2. In Leonel's story about the businessmen's negotiations with the peasants, what do the businessmen refuse to give the peasants?

3. What does the fire in the barrio remind Forche about?

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

5. Where did Forche and Leonel go as soon as they returned to El Salvador from Guatemala?

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