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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 "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who begs Hernández to spare the lives of the gauchos who victimized Miss Daisy?
(a) Miss Daisy.
(b) The gauchos' wives.
(c) The gauchos' mothers.
(d) Hernández's wife.

2. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," why does China Iron look forward to the rain?
(a) Because it will make the pampas bloom with wildflowers.
(b) Because they are nearly out of drinking water.
(c) Because she can be alone with Liz in the wagon.
(d) Because she loves the science of the lightening rod.

3. What is the result of all of the drinking at the party in In "Punch and Whisky"?
(a) China Iron realizes that Liz does not have her best interests at heart.
(b) Nearly 200 men desert the fort.
(c) Everyone ends up having sex.
(d) Rosario's cattle escape.

4. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," from whom has China Iron heard terrifying stories about Indian raids?
(a) Martín Fierro.
(b) Liz.
(c) The old people at her former settlement.
(d) Rosario.

5. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what is the literal explanation for China Iron's vision of the living lagoon?
(a) She has fallen asleep beside the fire.
(b) She is having a psychotic break.
(c) She has ingested psychedelic mushrooms.
(d) She is drunk on both whisky and caña.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Earth Croaked," what causes China Iron to take so long to notice that they are traveling uphill?

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

4. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who are the titular "Hapsburgs"?

5. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," when China Iron says, of Liz, "She was my North and I was the quivering needle on a compass," (51), what rhetorical technique is being used?

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