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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. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) The story of Jonah and the great fish.
(b) The story of the Good Samaritan.
(c) The story of Lot's wife.
(d) The story of Noah's ark.

2. In "Do Come In, My Dear," what is the Colonel's perspective on the importation of European livestock?
(a) He believes that it improves Argentine stock.
(b) He believes that it is driving prices up.
(c) He believes that it is an unnecessary example of European vanity.
(d) He believes that it introduces diseases into Argentine stock.

3. When China Iron was a small child, where did she often hide?
(a) In a trunk.
(b) In the neighbor's hut.
(c) In the closet.
(d) In a tree.

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) Confront the Indians about their tracking.
(b) Sing.
(c) Pray.
(d) Plan their defense in case of attack.

5. In "Do Come In, My Dear," what is the name of the Colonel who is in charge at the fort?
(a) Moreno.
(b) García.
(c) Hernández.
(d) Ruiz.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tangled Legs," what word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?

2. In"A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what is the name of the fort?

3. In "British Science," as China Iron lays awake at night, what idea occurs to her for the first time?

4. 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?

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

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