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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 word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?
(a) China.
(b) Larvae.
(c) Ladies.
(d) Parasites.

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

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

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what realization does China Iron have about the tea she is drinking?
(a) Drinking it makes her more like the British than she wants to be.
(b) It would be more efficient to grow the tea in Argentina instead of importing it.
(c) It holds the same place in British culture that coffee holds in her own.
(d) It represents the suffering of laborers.

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

6. In "Tangled Legs," what is China Iron's reaction to many of the military customs she encounters?
(a) She is confused and finds them meaningless.
(b) She thinks that they were probably learned from the British.
(c) She hopes that Martín Fierro is as uncomfortable as the soldiers at the fort seem to be.
(d) She admires their discipline and forward-thinking.

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

8. In "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what causes the pampas to look as if it is erupting?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) Stampeding cattle.
(d) Mountains.

9. When is the spring in Argentina?
(a) March through May.
(b) December through February.
(c) June through August.
(d) September through November.

10. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does Liz compare their journey to?
(a) The journey of Marco Polo.
(b) The journey of Joseph and Mary.
(c) The journey of the Israelites.
(d) The journey of Columbus.

11. In "We Come from Dust," what does China Iron realize that Liz is afraid of?
(a) Being swallowed up by the pampas.
(b) Her--China Iron.
(c) Running out of water and food.
(d) Indians.

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

13. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," from whom has China Iron heard terrifying stories about Indian raids?
(a) Liz.
(b) Martín Fierro.
(c) The old people at her former settlement.
(d) Rosario.

14. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron conclude about the Northern Hemisphere?
(a) That the people there are unusually violent.
(b) That things must grow upward more easily there.
(c) That it is unfair how much wealth is in that part of the world.
(d) That it is just pretend, like Liz's example of a head without a body.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In "La China Isn't a Name," what is China Iron most pleased to see inside the wagon?

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," when China Iron mentions someday wearing gaucho pants, what literary technique is being used?

5. In "A Prophet with a Paint Brush," who is Bruce Scott?

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