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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 comparison does Liz make that shocks China Iron?
(a) She compares Hernández to God.
(b) She compares the fort to Paradise.
(c) She compares Rosario to a parasite.
(d) She compares China Iron to a dog.

2. In"A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what is the name of the fort?
(a) Las Azucenas.
(b) Los Tulipanes.
(c) Las Violetas.
(d) Las Hortensias.

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

4. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," which indigenous group are China Iron and the others traveling towards?
(a) Guaraní.
(b) Tehuelche.
(c) Charrúa.
(d) Quechua.

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

6. In "Dressed to the Nines," what makes China Iron, Liz, and Rosario love one another even more?
(a) Bones that remind them of their own mortality.
(b) The knowledge that the end of their journey will probably mean separating.
(c) Having shared their histories with one another.
(d) Staying up late drinking and making up stories.

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

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

9. During the dinner in "Do Come In, My Dear," to which two animals does China Iron compare Liz?
(a) A caiman and a vulture.
(b) A puma and a wild horse.
(c) A tiger and a bear.
(d) A rabbit and a bird.

10. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is China Iron most pleased to see inside the wagon?
(a) Food.
(b) Shotguns.
(c) Whisky.
(d) Books.

11. In "I Climaxed Too," what dynamic between China Iron and Liz is revealed?
(a) China Iron has been secretly manipulating Liz's emotions.
(b) China Iron is too innocent to understand Liz's intentions.
(c) Liz is only attracted to the more feminine aspects of China Iron's personality.
(d) Liz dominates and controls their relationship.

12. In "Tangled Legs," what word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?
(a) Parasites.
(b) China.
(c) Larvae.
(d) Ladies.

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

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

15. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who is Miss Daisy?
(a) A schoolteacher on the estancia.
(b) The Colonel's deceased wife.
(c) One of the Colonel's servants.
(d) A woman that Rosario has begun a relationship with.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what does Rosario say he is looking for?

2. About how old is China Iron when she gets married?

3. 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?

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is the full name that China Iron creates for herself?

5. When China Iron sees the distress of the cow whose calf has been killed in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what does she briefly think of?

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