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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. 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.

2. In "British Science," what is a "Franklin rod" (53)?
(a) A branding iron.
(b) A wagon axle.
(c) A lightening rod.
(d) A device used to find water.

3. What is the "mate" referred to at the end of "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) A caffeine-rich beverage.
(b) A breakfast porridge.
(c) A mortar and pestle.
(d) A partner.

4. 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) Hernández's wife.
(d) The gauchos' mothers.

5. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who are the titular "Hapsburgs"?
(a) The gauchos.
(b) The Indians.
(c) An unknown group of intruders at the estancia.
(d) Children born of incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. In "Tangled Legs," what word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?

3. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who is Miss Daisy?

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what realization does China Iron have about the tea she is drinking?

5. In the opening of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," to what does the Colonel compare the Indians?

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