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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "mate" referred to at the end of "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) A breakfast porridge.
(b) A caffeine-rich beverage.
(c) A mortar and pestle.
(d) A partner.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?
(a) Her biological mother.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) Her own children.
(d) Her love for Estreya.

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

9. In "An Orphan's Fate," who is the first man that Rosario kills?
(a) His younger brother.
(b) Maria's husband.
(c) The landowner's son.
(d) His stepfather.

10. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," how does the idea of dragons in the pampas make China Iron feel?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Amused.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Safe.

11. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," what does China Iron reveal about her early life?
(a) She tried to run away and join a convent.
(b) She once tried to kill La Negra.
(c) El Negro tried to sexually abuse her.
(d) Martín Fierro knew who her biological parents were.

12. In "British Science," what is China Iron's response to the book Liz reads to her?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is terrified.
(c) She wants to become a writer.
(d) She is delighted.

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

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

15. In "Tangled Legs," what does the Colonel reveal the purpose of the ditch to be?
(a) It is a burial ground for those killed fighting the Indians.
(b) It is a way of breaking new gauchos to accept his authority and discipline.
(c) It is the linchpin of his defenses against Indian raids.
(d) It is intended more to keep the gauchos in than it is to keep people out.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "La China Isn't a Name," what does China Iron see for the first time?

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

3. In "British Science," what object does China Iron become fascinated with?

4. In "By Dint of Force," what does Liz say is the source of Great Britain's power?

5. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," to what does China Iron compare the Indians they are following?

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