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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "British Science," what is an ombú?
(a) A burrowing mammal.
(b) A large tree.
(c) A flightless bird.
(d) A reptile like a small crocodile.

3. In "British Science," as China Iron lays awake at night, what idea occurs to her for the first time?
(a) She might be a landowner's daughter.
(b) Martín Fierro might be dead.
(c) Her children must miss her.
(d) La Negra might have kidnapped her.

4. In In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what does Liz say makes scones taste better?
(a) Jam.
(b) The open air.
(c) Working hard to make them.
(d) Butter and cream.

5. At the end of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," whom does Liz ask to see?
(a) The gauchos who committed the crime against Miss Daisy.
(b) Miss Daisy's children.
(c) The children born of incest.
(d) Miss Daisy.

6. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what criticism does China Iron level at her own country?
(a) It ignores the suffering of the Indians.
(b) It is not advanced scientifically.
(c) It is too focused on men.
(d) It produces a lot of carcasses.

7. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is the full name that China Iron creates for herself?
(a) China Josephine Star Iron.
(b) China Josephine Iron Estreya.
(c) China Iron Seraphina Estreya.
(d) China Seraphina Star Iron.

8. To what Biblical story does China Iron allude in "We Come from Dust"?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) The Persecution of Job.
(c) David and Goliath.
(d) Jonah and the Great Fish.

9. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," how does the narrator indicate time passing rapidly?
(a) She offers a montage of scenes from their travels.
(b) She tells how tall she was when she left and how tall she was when she arrived.
(c) She describes the wagon traveling through a map of the pampas.
(d) She describes the many books she has learned how to read.

10. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to Liz?
(a) Her skin color.
(b) Her wealth.
(c) Her easy laughter.
(d) Her singing voice.

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

12. Who is Martín Fierro?
(a) El Negro.
(b) China Iron's husband.
(c) China Iron's biological father.
(d) The estancia foreman.

13. In "La China Isn't a Name," what does China Iron see for the first time?
(a) Her own reflection in a mirror.
(b) Printed words.
(c) An Indian girl her own age.
(d) A petticoat.

14. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to the puppy that she eventually adopts?
(a) Its youth and radiance.
(b) It seems unusually clever.
(c) It is an English dog.
(d) It is starving and sick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 98 of "Tangled Legs," what technique is being used when China Iron says that people started singing Martín Fierro's songs in places he had never been, "as I would discover right there in Hernández's fort"?

2. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," what is the name of China Iron's first love?

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

4. In "British Science," what has China Iron begun to call Rosario?

5. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," what does Rosa spend time each day brushing off the oxen?

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