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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Part Two: The Fort": "Dressed to the Nines" through "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Suspended in the Air," what wakes China Iron in the middle of the night?
(a) A noise outside the wagon.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) Estreya licking her face.
(d) Liz's nearness.

2. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," China Iron's husband is "conscripted." What happens to him?
(a) He is drowned in the flooded river.
(b) He is jailed for a debt.
(c) He is seriously injured by a horse.
(d) He is forced into service in the army.

3. In "British Science," what object does China Iron become fascinated with?
(a) A book of myths.
(b) A pepper mill.
(c) A compass.
(d) An umbrella.

4. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who begs Hernández to spare the lives of the gauchos who victimized Miss Daisy?
(a) The gauchos' wives.
(b) Hernández's wife.
(c) Miss Daisy.
(d) The gauchos' mothers.

5. On page 98 of "Tangled Legs," what technique is being used when China Iron says that people started singing Martín Fierro's songs in places he had never been, "as I would discover right there in Hernández's fort"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Foreshadowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what indigenous group did Rosario's mother belong?

2. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is the full name that China Iron creates for herself?

3. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what realization does China Iron have about the tea she is drinking?

4. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," who does China Iron reveal will later kill El Negro?

5. In "At the Mercy of the Caranchos," what do China Iron and Liz see whenever it rains?

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