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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 "La China Isn't a Name," what does China Iron see for the first time?
(a) An Indian girl her own age.
(b) A petticoat.
(c) Her own reflection in a mirror.
(d) Printed words.

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

3. In "A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what does Rosario see coming toward them when the dust settles?
(a) A wagon headed in the opposite direction.
(b) A cattle stampede.
(c) Armed men on horseback.
(d) Various wild animals.

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what realization does China Iron have about the tea she is drinking?
(a) It represents the suffering of laborers.
(b) Drinking it makes her more like the British than she wants to be.
(c) It holds the same place in British culture that coffee holds in her own.
(d) It would be more efficient to grow the tea in Argentina instead of importing it.

5. When China Iron sees the distress of the cow whose calf has been killed in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what does she briefly think of?
(a) Her biological mother.
(b) Her own children.
(c) Her childhood.
(d) Her love for Estreya.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what noise does the group first hear from the Indians?

2. When is the spring in Argentina?

3. In "Tangled Legs," what is the main point of the poem that the gauchos recite?

4. 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"?

5. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does China Iron feel for the first time as the Colonel talks about Martín?

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