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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Part Two: The Fort": "The Whip and the Rod" through "Goodbye, Colonel".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to the puppy that she eventually adopts?
(a) Its youth and radiance.
(b) It seems unusually clever.
(c) It is starving and sick.
(d) It is an English dog.

2. In "I Climaxed Too," what dynamic between China Iron and Liz is revealed?
(a) China Iron is too innocent to understand Liz's intentions.
(b) Liz is only attracted to the more feminine aspects of China Iron's personality.
(c) China Iron has been secretly manipulating Liz's emotions.
(d) Liz dominates and controls their relationship.

3. In "Punch and Whisky," what does Liz suggest the Colonel do to improve his health?
(a) Exercise with his men.
(b) Take more naps.
(c) Drink tea.
(d) Stop drinking cãna.

4. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who is Miss Daisy?
(a) The Colonel's deceased wife.
(b) A woman that Rosario has begun a relationship with.
(c) One of the Colonel's servants.
(d) A schoolteacher on the estancia.

5. In "Punch and Whisky," what secret does Liz reveal to China Iron?
(a) She forged the papers authorizing her to run the estancia.
(b) She knows where Martín Fierro is.
(c) She is not really looking for her husband.
(d) She has a plan to steal from the Colonel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When China Iron was a small child, where did she often hide?

3. Who is Martín Fierro?

4. At the end of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," whom does Liz ask to see?

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"?

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