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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Part Three: Indian Territory": "Frothing like Foam" through "Most Were Naked and Beautiful.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the dinner in "Do Come In, My Dear," to which two animals does China Iron compare Liz?
(a) A tiger and a bear.
(b) A puma and a wild horse.
(c) A rabbit and a bird.
(d) A caiman and a vulture.

2. What happens at the end of the dinner in "Do Come In, My Dear"?
(a) The Colonel makes a drunken pass at Liz.
(b) The Colonel passes out from drinking and injures himself.
(c) China Iron begins to wonder if they are more hostage than guest at the estancia.
(d) China Iron gets sick to her stomach from drinking so much red wine.

3. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what do the Indians use to draw on their skin?
(a) Blood.
(b) Ground bark.
(c) Powdered bones.
(d) Pollen.

4. In "Dressed to the Nines," what makes China Iron, Liz, and Rosario love one another even more?
(a) Staying up late drinking and making up stories.
(b) Having shared their histories with one another.
(c) Bones that remind them of their own mortality.
(d) The knowledge that the end of their journey will probably mean separating.

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) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Synechdoche.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "British Science," what object does China Iron become fascinated with?

2. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?

3. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," when China Iron mentions how much Kaukalitrán will love the black-plumed chickens, what literary technique is being used?

4. When China Iron sees the distress of the cow whose calf has been killed in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what does she briefly think of?

5. In "Frothing like Foam," what does China Iron say "is the best air" (141)?

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