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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does Liz do that surprises and pleases China Iron?
(a) Gives China her own gun.
(b) Feeds her own food to Estreya.
(c) Cuts her hair short.
(d) Kisses her.

2. 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 is an English dog.
(c) It seems unusually clever.
(d) It is starving and sick.

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

4. In "British Science," what book does Liz read aloud?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) Frankenstein.
(d) Don Quixote.

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

6. 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"?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allegory.

7. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," how do China Iron and Liz navigate?
(a) Using a compass.
(b) Using markers on the land itself.
(c) Using the stars.
(d) Using a map.

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

9. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what happens to China Iron's two sons after her husband is conscripted?
(a) Her husband insists that they go with him.
(b) She leaves them in the care of a neighbor couple.
(c) They both fall ill and die.
(d) She leaves them with La Negra.

10. In "At the Mercy of the Caranchos," what do China Iron and Liz see whenever it rains?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Worms.
(c) Bones.
(d) Flood water.

11. In "By Dint of Force," who is Braulio?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A dog.
(c) A calf.
(d) A foal.

12. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what does Liz draw for China Iron at night?
(a) The alphabet and simple words.
(b) Pictures of London.
(c) Maps.
(d) Pictures of animals.

13. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does China Iron do when the women realize they are close to a group of Indians?
(a) Loads both shotguns and teaches Liz to shoot.
(b) Disguises herself as a man.
(c) Begs Liz to turn the wagon around.
(d) Begins to teach Liz a few words of their language.

14. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who are the titular "Hapsburgs"?
(a) The Indians.
(b) An unknown group of intruders at the estancia.
(c) Children born of incest.
(d) The gauchos.

15. 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) China Iron.
(d) La Negra.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tangled Legs," what word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?

2. In the opening of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," to what does the Colonel compare the Indians?

3. In "We Come from Dust," what does China Iron realize that Liz is afraid of?

4. At the end of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," whom does Liz ask to see?

5. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?

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