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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer ask Forche to come in to the group's meeting to see on page 163?

2. When do the death squads do their work?

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

4. Why does Leonel tell Forche he can not just give his land to his workers?

5. At what discount store does Forche buy supplies to take to El Salvador with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In San Salvador, what did a white handprint on a door or wall signify?

2. What happens to Forche that lands her in a Salvadoran hospital and produces hallucinations?

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

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

5. What does Forche's experiences with Vietnam mostly consist of?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Forche come to understand about the nature of a person's life when that person joins a death squad?

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