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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Part Three: Indian Territory": "Oh China, Love, Forgive Me Now," through "I Wish You Could See Us.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who begs Hernández to spare the lives of the gauchos who victimized Miss Daisy?
(a) The gauchos' wives.
(b) Miss Daisy.
(c) The gauchos' mothers.
(d) Hernández's wife.

2. In "British Science," what has China Iron begun to call Rosario?
(a) Gaucho.
(b) Vaquero.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Rosarito.

3. In "Oh China, Love, Forgive Me Now," what does Liz give China Iron?
(a) The oxen from the wagon.
(b) The diamond ring.
(c) A china teapot.
(d) The wagon that they traveled in together.

4. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?
(a) A white landowner.
(b) A gaucho and his wife.
(c) A fort full of soldiers.
(d) A white woman and her child.

5. In "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?
(a) Learning Spanish and teaching China Iron English.
(b) Learning how to drive a wagon and ride a horse.
(c) Rescuing her husband and taking over the ranch they were supposed to run.
(d) Teaching China Iron to read and write.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what is the reason for the feast at the Indian encampment?

2. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," how does the narrator indicate time passing rapidly?

3. In "An Erratic Flight," what is the literal reason that the travelers get rid of some of their possessions?

4. On page 174 of "But We Don't Have Any Weapons," why does China Iron say that her new community believes that they can live peacefully in their new territory?

5. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," what does China Iron reveal about her early life?

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