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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Leonel's story about the businessmen's negotiations with the peasants, what do the businessmen refuse to give the peasants?
(a) A bar of gold.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Coffee.
(d) A cow.

2. What does Leonel ask the people farming his land to do in an effort to help them become more self-sufficient?
(a) Invest in the stock market.
(b) Form a cooperative.
(c) Use the black market.
(d) Make their children work on the farm, too.

3. What was Forche doing the first time she met her husband?
(a) Trying to light a burner on a stove.
(b) Protesting the war.
(c) Watering plants.
(d) Writing at her house.

4. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) Che Guevara.
(c) Bob Marley.
(d) Bob Dylan.

5. What did Forche know the song Madre was about?
(a) Eating good food.
(b) Losing one's mother.
(c) The mining of the waters of Haiphong.
(d) Having a good nanny.

6. What was the visual warning of the Mano Blanca group?
(a) A white handprint on a building or wall.
(b) A severed finger left on a porch.
(c) A red X on a building or wall.
(d) A lock of hair from a prisoner of theirs taped to a door.

7. What does Leonel tell Forcche the letters RDX stand for?
(a) Research Department Explosive.
(b) Research Department X-Ray.
(c) Really Dismal Expat.
(d) Ready Department Expletive.

8. Who chases Margarita and Forche one night by car?
(a) Harry Mattison.
(b) A death squad.
(c) Leonel.
(d) Margarita's husband.

9. Why does Leon tell Forche he never enters churches?
(a) He hates holy water.
(b) He hates priests.
(c) He is not a religious man.
(d) He is barred from churches.

10. What does Forche smell in Leonel's house that she thinks is gas?
(a) Pet food.
(b) Cosmoline, an anticorrosive for storing metal.
(c) Weapons components.
(d) Chemicals meant to preserve food.

11. Why does Leonel tell Forche not to drink the water at Fina's?
(a) It could be contaminated.
(b) It is too chlorinated.
(c) It is too cold.
(d) It is too hot.

12. What is Forche embarrassed about when she stays at Fina's?
(a) Having her period.
(b) Being sick.
(c) Eating too much.
(d) Stripping and washing with the other women.

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

14. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?
(a) The law forbids him giving his land away.
(b) His mother would never forgive him for giving the land away.
(c) He and his brother are co-owners of the land and his brother will not allow it.
(d) They have to take it from him.

15. What does the religious figure with Forche say they all must do for the person whose abduction they witnessed?
(a) Call his family.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Take a photograph of the van that he was forced into.
(d) Track him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the authorities in El Salvador after Margarita, even though they do not know her identity?

2. What does Forche criticize Leonel for regarding the way he runs his farm?

3. What did Leonel hear about the American ambassador to El Salvador's impressions of Forche?

4. Which of the following did poet Pablo Neruda write about El Salvador?

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

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