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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 "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Hearing a story.
(c) Singing a song.
(d) Flying.

2. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," China Iron's husband is "conscripted." What happens to him?
(a) He is seriously injured by a horse.
(b) He is jailed for a debt.
(c) He is drowned in the flooded river.
(d) He is forced into service in the army.

3. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," what tells them that they are nearing the desert?
(a) They begin to see desert animals.
(b) They begin to see sand dunes.
(c) They begin to see the tracks of Indians.
(d) They begin to see desert plants.

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," when China Iron mentions someday wearing gaucho pants, what literary technique is being used?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Foreshadowing.

5. In "Suspended in the Air," what wakes China Iron in the middle of the night?
(a) A noise outside the wagon.
(b) Liz's nearness.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) Estreya licking her face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of China Iron's dog's name?

2. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what does Liz draw for China Iron at night?

3. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to the puppy that she eventually adopts?

4. Who is Martín Fierro?

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

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