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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 "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?
(a) Learning Spanish and teaching China Iron English.
(b) Rescuing her husband and taking over the ranch they were supposed to run.
(c) Learning how to drive a wagon and ride a horse.
(d) Teaching China Iron to read and write.

2. In "The Morbid Light of Dead Men's Bones," what does Liz say about China Iron's people?
(a) She calls them murderers.
(b) She calls them savages.
(c) She says that they do not understand death.
(d) She says that they are less intelligent than the British.

3. In "British Science," what is an ombú?
(a) A burrowing mammal.
(b) A large tree.
(c) A flightless bird.
(d) A reptile like a small crocodile.

4. In "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what causes the pampas to look as if it is erupting?
(a) Mountains.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Stampeding cattle.
(d) A thunderstorm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tangled Legs," what comparison does Liz make that shocks China Iron?

2. What new information does China Iron learn about Martín in "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer"?

3. In "We Come from Dust," what does China Iron realize that Liz is afraid of?

4. How does Liz try to make sure that they will be safe at the fort?

5. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?

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