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

2. 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.

3. When China Iron was a small child, where did she often hide?
(a) In a trunk.
(b) In the closet.
(c) In the neighbor's hut.
(d) In a tree.

4. In his remarks about the role of the gauchos in "Tangled Legs," what importance does the Colonel assign them?
(a) They are just as important as his cattle.
(b) They are less important than cattle lice.
(c) They are more important even than himself.
(d) They are just as important as the Indians.

5. In "British Science," what book does Liz read aloud?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Frankenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chapter title "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin" refer to?

2. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is the first thing that Liz does when they come to a river?

3. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," who does China Iron reveal will later kill El Negro?

4. 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?

5. In "British Science," what is China Iron's response to the book Liz reads to her?

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