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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. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what does Liz draw for China Iron at night?
(a) Pictures of London.
(b) The alphabet and simple words.
(c) Maps.
(d) Pictures of animals.

2. What does the chapter title "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin" refer to?
(a) The new language and customs that China Iron is gradually learning.
(b) The dust that China Iron and Liz are always battling.
(c) The constant glare of the sun.
(d) The new fabrics that China Iron has become used to.

3. In "The Whip and the Rod," who first tells China Iron and Liz about the gaucho poet?
(a) Miss Daisy.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) Rosario.
(d) The Little Daisies.

4. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) The story of the Good Samaritan.
(b) The story of Noah's ark.
(c) The story of Jonah and the great fish.
(d) The story of Lot's wife.

5. In "Punch and Whisky," what promise does China Iron make to Estreya?
(a) That she will never leave his side again.
(b) That they will leave the fort soon.
(c) That they will sleep together from now on.
(d) That someday he will live in a house like the Colonel's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who are the titular "Hapsburgs"?

2. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron conclude about the Northern Hemisphere?

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

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," what does China Iron see for the first time?

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

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