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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Tangled Legs," what is the main point of the poem that the gauchos recite?
(a) That the British have treated Argentina unfairly.
(b) That the gauchos and the land are one.
(c) That the Indians are a menace that must be erased from Argentina's landscape.
(d) That the gauchos must be loyal to one another and feel unity with their masters.

2. In "British Science," what is a "Franklin rod" (53)?
(a) A wagon axle.
(b) A lightening rod.
(c) A branding iron.
(d) A device used to find water.

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

4. In "At the Mercy of the Caranchos," what makes China Iron wish to be British?
(a) The material goods that Liz has with her.
(b) The food that Liz cooks.
(c) Liz's stories.
(d) Whisky.

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

6. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," what tells them that they are nearing the desert?
(a) They begin to see the tracks of Indians.
(b) They begin to see sand dunes.
(c) They begin to see desert animals.
(d) They begin to see desert plants.

7. In "Do Come In, My Dear," what is the name of the Colonel who is in charge at the fort?
(a) Moreno.
(b) Ruiz.
(c) Hernández.
(d) García.

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

9. In "La China Isn't a Name," when China Iron mentions someday wearing gaucho pants, what literary technique is being used?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

10. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," how does China Iron end up getting married?
(a) La Negra throws her out of the house.
(b) She falls in love with a passing gaucho.
(c) She runs away.
(d) El Negro loses her in a poker game.

11. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," when China Iron says, of Liz, "She was my North and I was the quivering needle on a compass," (51), what rhetorical technique is being used?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

12. In "An Orphan's Fate," why does the landowner's son kill Rosario's horse?
(a) Rosario stole his girlfriend.
(b) It kicked him.
(c) Rosario threatened him.
(d) It threw him.

13. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," what is the name of China Iron's first love?
(a) Santos.
(b) Raúl.
(c) Luka.
(d) Juan.

14. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," who does China Iron reveal will later kill El Negro?
(a) Martín.
(b) The estancia foreman.
(c) La Negra.
(d) China Iron.

15. To what indigenous group did Rosario's mother belong?
(a) Quechua.
(b) Tehuelche.
(c) Guaraní.
(d) Charrúa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron wear for the first time in her life?

2. In "The Morbid Light of Dead Men's Bones," what does Liz say about China Iron's people?

3. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what happens to China Iron's two sons after her husband is conscripted?

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

5. In "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?

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