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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. To what indigenous group did Rosario's mother belong?
(a) Tehuelche.
(b) Guaraní.
(c) Charrúa.
(d) Quechua.

2. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," how does the idea of dragons in the pampas make China Iron feel?
(a) Amused.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Safe.
(d) Skeptical.

3. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," how does the narrator indicate time passing rapidly?
(a) She describes the wagon traveling through a map of the pampas.
(b) She offers a montage of scenes from their travels.
(c) She tells how tall she was when she left and how tall she was when she arrived.
(d) She describes the many books she has learned how to read.

4. In "Do Come In, My Dear," by what name is China Iron introduced?
(a) Joseph Scott.
(b) Jo Iron.
(c) Jo Estreya.
(d) Joseph Star.

5. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," what tells them that they are nearing the desert?
(a) They begin to see sand dunes.
(b) They begin to see the tracks of Indians.
(c) They begin to see desert plants.
(d) They begin to see desert animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Martín Fierro?

2. In "An Orphan's Fate," what is the name of Rosario's boyhood horse?

3. In "The Whip and the Rod," what is Campo Malo"?

4. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what claim does the Colonel make about having stolen Martín Fierro's writing?

5. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron wear for the first time in her life?

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