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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Part One: The Pampas": "The Morbid Light of Dead Men's Bones" through "A Prophet with a Paintbrush".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," which indigenous group are China Iron and the others traveling towards?
(a) Quechua.
(b) Guaraní.
(c) Tehuelche.
(d) Charrúa.

2. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does Liz compare their journey to?
(a) The journey of Columbus.
(b) The journey of Marco Polo.
(c) The journey of the Israelites.
(d) The journey of Joseph and Mary.

3. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what happens to China Iron's two sons after her husband is conscripted?
(a) They both fall ill and die.
(b) She leaves them with La Negra.
(c) She leaves them in the care of a neighbor couple.
(d) Her husband insists that they go with him.

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

5. What is the "mate" referred to at the end of "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) A partner.
(b) A breakfast porridge.
(c) A mortar and pestle.
(d) A caffeine-rich beverage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "An Orphan's Fate," who is the first man that Rosario kills?

3. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," how do China Iron and Liz navigate?

4. In "British Science," what is a "Franklin rod" (53)?

5. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," how does the narrator indicate time passing rapidly?

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