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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 did Salvadorans put rags and garbage on trees sometimes?
(a) To help the tree grow.
(b) To embarrass the tree in front of other trees if it failed to produce fruit.
(c) To help people with directions.
(d) To mark secret dwellings.

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

3. Which French resistance poet does Forche admire?
(a) Rene Char.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Claude Bonet.
(d) Bonaparte.

4. What does Forche see inside the prison that upsets her immensely?
(a) Sexual abuse.
(b) Men bleeding to death.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Men kept in very small boxes.

5. Who guards the front entrance of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador?
(a) Two Air Force cadets.
(b) One dozen El Salvador military personnel.
(c) Two U.S. Marines in dress blues.
(d) One Navy cadet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which religious figure was with Forche the only time she actually witnessed an abduction?

2. Who does Leonel have a poster of in his own house that Forche recognizes?

3. Where does Leonel ask Forche to fly to meet him once she has returned to the U.S. on page 231?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What recurring nightmare does Forche have as a child that she is reminded of again in El Salvador?

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

3. What does Forche buy in large amounts in the discount store Gemco to take back to El Salvador with her?

4. What does Forche tell Chenco, the young priest who comes to say mass at the poor village she stays in briefly, about why Leonel cares what North Americans think about El Salvador?

5. Why is Forche embarrassed when the women in the village she stays in all wash together from a spigot?

6. What does Forche see in the prison Ahuachapan that shakes her to her core?

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

8. Why do the women near Nabaj give Leonel their intricate weavings to take with him?

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

10. What does seeing Leonel with a mysterious woman seem to make Forche realize about her feelings for him?

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