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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 the opening of "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what is China Iron learning about?
(a) Abstraction.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Deduction.

2. In "La China Isn't a Name," how does Liz react to learning that China Iron does not have her own name?
(a) She cries.
(b) She tells China that she must have misunderstood.
(c) She says that China's people are savages.
(d) She laughs and shrugs.

3. What is the meaning of China Iron's dog's name?
(a) Home.
(b) Gold.
(c) Iron.
(d) Star.

4. What happens at the end of the dinner in "Do Come In, My Dear"?
(a) The Colonel makes a drunken pass at Liz.
(b) China Iron begins to wonder if they are more hostage than guest at the estancia.
(c) China Iron gets sick to her stomach from drinking so much red wine.
(d) The Colonel passes out from drinking and injures himself.

5. In the beginning of "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does China Iron say about her relationship with Liz?
(a) That during their time at the fort she was beginning to see that Liz was cruel to her.
(b) That now that she is older she realizes that what she felt for Liz was not love.
(c) That she might not have realized it at the time, but Liz was breaking her like a horse.
(d) That even then she understood that Liz was conflicted about her sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who begs Hernández to spare the lives of the gauchos who victimized Miss Daisy?

2. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what is the most shocking thing that Hernández accuses the gauchos of?

3. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?

4. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does the Colonel fear the gauchos will do when they realize that their numbers give them power?

5. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is the full name that China Iron creates for herself?

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