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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. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?
(a) Singing a song.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Flying.
(d) Hearing a story.

2. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," when China Iron says, of Liz, "She was my North and I was the quivering needle on a compass," (51), what rhetorical technique is being used?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

3. In "The Earth Croaked," what literary technique is employed when China Iron says that "The rainbow had one leg shorter than the other" (145)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Simile.

4. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what does China Iron say is the only thing the group can do while traveling through Indian Territory?
(a) Plan their defense in case of attack.
(b) Sing.
(c) Confront the Indians about their tracking.
(d) Pray.

5. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," what does China Iron say they will arrive at the Indian encampment "armed with" (143)?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Transparency.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Earth Croaked," what causes China Iron to take so long to notice that they are traveling uphill?

2. 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"?

3. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what is the most shocking thing that Hernández accuses the gauchos of?

4. In "By Dint of Force," who is Braulio?

5. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," why does China Iron look forward to the rain?

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