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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. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what is a "two-spirit"?
(a) A person who is born a twin.
(b) A person who does not fit into traditional gender categories.
(c) A person who is haunted by a dead loved one.
(d) A person who is caught between two cultures.

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

3. 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.

4. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron wear for the first time in her life?
(a) A corset.
(b) A petticoat.
(c) Leather shoes.
(d) A raincoat.

5. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?
(a) A white woman and her child.
(b) A gaucho and his wife.
(c) A white landowner.
(d) A fort full of soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does Liz compare their journey to?

2. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," China Iron's husband is "conscripted." What happens to him?

3. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," from whom has China Iron heard terrifying stories about Indian raids?

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?

5. In In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what does Liz say makes scones taste better?

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