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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. Who does Leonel tell Forche to ask for inside the prison?

2. What does Leonel tell Forcche the letters RDX stand for?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Leonel tell Forche about Colonel Chacon?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the nickname, Papu, by which Leonel almost always refers to Forche? How does Forche feel when Leonel first starts using the term to refer to her? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What is Leonel's greatest wish for, and request of, Forche related to the time she spends in El Salvador? What does Leonel ask Forche to do, and does she feel equipped to do it? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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