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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Part Two: The Fort": "Dressed to the Nines" through "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to the puppy that she eventually adopts?
(a) Its youth and radiance.
(b) It is starving and sick.
(c) It seems unusually clever.
(d) It is an English dog.

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

3. In "An Orphan's Fate," what is the name of Rosario's boyhood horse?
(a) Curry.
(b) Chacho.
(c) Braulio.
(d) Bizco.

4. In "We Come from Dust," what does China Iron realize that Liz is afraid of?
(a) Indians.
(b) Her--China Iron.
(c) Being swallowed up by the pampas.
(d) Running out of water and food.

5. In "Tangled Legs," what is the main point of the poem that the gauchos recite?
(a) That the gauchos and the land are one.
(b) That the gauchos must be loyal to one another and feel unity with their masters.
(c) That the Indians are a menace that must be erased from Argentina's landscape.
(d) That the British have treated Argentina unfairly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Colours Became Detached from Their Objects," what two colors does China Iron mostly focus on?

3. During the dinner in "Do Come In, My Dear," to which two animals does China Iron compare Liz?

4. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what does the Colonel say about the mixed ancestry of the gauchos?

5. In "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?

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