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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Part Three: Indian Territory": "Frothing like Foam" through "Most Were Naked and Beautiful.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how old is China Iron when she gets married?
(a) 14 or 15.
(b) 17 or 18.
(c) 11 or 12.
(d) 20 or 21.

2. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what is the most shocking thing that Hernández accuses the gauchos of?
(a) Theft.
(b) Incest.
(c) Murder.
(d) Vandalism.

3. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what realization does China Iron have about the tea she is drinking?
(a) It would be more efficient to grow the tea in Argentina instead of importing it.
(b) It represents the suffering of laborers.
(c) It holds the same place in British culture that coffee holds in her own.
(d) Drinking it makes her more like the British than she wants to be.

4. 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) Liz has told her to keep the Colonel occupied.
(c) She is interested in his ideas about the Argentine economy.
(d) He physically prevents her from leaving him.

5. In "An Orphan's Fate," what is the name of Rosario's boyhood horse?
(a) Bizco.
(b) Chacho.
(c) Curry.
(d) Braulio.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tangled Legs," what is the main point of the poem that the gauchos recite?

2. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what does China Iron call "paradise" (150)?

3. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does China Iron feel for the first time as the Colonel talks about Martín?

4. In his remarks about the role of the gauchos in "Tangled Legs," what importance does the Colonel assign them?

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

(see the answer key)

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