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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Part Two: The Fort": "The Whip and the Rod" through "Goodbye, Colonel".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Punch and Whisky," why does China Iron spend the day listening to the Colonel's drunken ramblings?
(a) She is trying to figure out how to get justice for her family.
(b) She is interested in his ideas about the Argentine economy.
(c) Liz has told her to keep the Colonel occupied.
(d) He physically prevents her from leaving him.

3. In "By Dint of Force," who is Braulio?
(a) A dog.
(b) A calf.
(c) A lamb.
(d) A foal.

4. What is Elizabeth's husband's name?
(a) Francisco.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Jacob.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On page 120 of "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does the Colonel call a "plague that all these starving peasants are trying to bring over from Europe"?

3. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?

4. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?

5. In "Do Come In, My Dear," what does Hernández declare is his "purpose in life" (87)?

(see the answer key)

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