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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Leonel against Forche going to Aguilares with the nuns?
(a) He does not want Forche traveling there and endangering the people she meets.
(b) He does not want Forche going there and misrepresenting him.
(c) He does not want Forche going there and speaking bad Spanish to people.
(d) He does not want Forche going there and meeting other men.

2. How does Forche write much of her work in El Salvador?
(a) In pen.
(b) In marker.
(c) In crayon.
(d) In pencil.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea from Machiavelli tell Forche on page 185?

2. What did Forche talk to the American ambassador to El Salvador about that was of no consequence but was just small talk?

3. What does Margarita tell Forche to do if she is ever in trouble?

4. What does Forche borrow from Margarita that comes in handy later?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leonel tell Forche when she rebukes him for not giving some of his land to the peasants?

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

3. How do Forche's friends in America react to her deepening interest in and commitment to El Salvador?

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

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

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

7. What does Forche think about Leonel's apparent obsession with Donald Richardson?

8. What did Forche come to think about Leonel during her many trips to El Salvador during the 1980s?

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

10. Why does Margarita suggest that Forche borrow a dress and good shoes from her?

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