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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Forche write much of her work in El Salvador?
2. What did the campesinos do with the materials the U.S. sent for portable toilets?
3. What does Leonel tell Forche about her purse when they visit the colonia on page 177?
4. How was General Chacon killed?
5. How do the Mayans view time, according to Leonel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does seeing Leonel with a mysterious woman seem to make Forche realize about her feelings for him?
2. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?
3. What changes Forche's feelings about meeting with the Salvadoran writers immediately after her horrific visit to Ahuachapan?
4. What does Forche's experiences with Vietnam mostly consist of?
5. 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?
6. What recurring nightmare does Forche have as a child that she is reminded of again in El Salvador?
7. What does Leonel tell Forche the Salvadorans did with the portable toilets the Americans tried to set up for them?
8. What does Forche come to understand about the nature of a person's life when that person joins a death squad?
9. Why do the women near Nabaj give Leonel their intricate weavings to take with him?
10. What does Forche see in the prison Ahuachapan that shakes her to her core?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Forche learn about both Leonel and agricultural life in El Salvador when he takes her to visit his coffee farm? (100). What does Forche think about the innovations and tactics Leonel and his workers created to help make their work more efficient? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How does Forche's relationship with Margarita Herrera change over time? What does Herrera help Forche understand better about El Salvador and the people there? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Why is Leonel Gomez so fixated on the case of the American, Ronald Richardson, who disappeared some years earlier? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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