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

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

4. In "Tangled Legs," what comparison does Liz make that shocks China Iron?
(a) She compares China Iron to a dog.
(b) She compares the fort to Paradise.
(c) She compares Hernández to God.
(d) She compares Rosario to a parasite.

5. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," China Iron's husband is "conscripted." What happens to him?
(a) He is drowned in the flooded river.
(b) He is forced into service in the army.
(c) He is seriously injured by a horse.
(d) He is jailed for a debt.

6. In "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what does Rosario say he is looking for?
(a) A place to live with his cattle.
(b) His mother's grave.
(c) Someone to travel with.
(d) The fort where his brother was taken.

7. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," what does Rosa spend time each day brushing off the oxen?
(a) Thistles.
(b) Cattle lice.
(c) Mud.
(d) Dung.

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

9. In "British Science," to what does China Iron compare Argentina?
(a) A china (woman).
(b) A cow.
(c) A gaucho.
(d) A womb.

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

11. In "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?
(a) Teaching China Iron to read and write.
(b) Rescuing her husband and taking over the ranch they were supposed to run.
(c) Learning how to drive a wagon and ride a horse.
(d) Learning Spanish and teaching China Iron English.

12. In his remarks about the role of the gauchos in "Tangled Legs," what importance does the Colonel assign them?
(a) They are just as important as the Indians.
(b) They are more important even than himself.
(c) They are just as important as his cattle.
(d) They are less important than cattle lice.

13. When China Iron was a small child, where did she often hide?
(a) In the neighbor's hut.
(b) In a tree.
(c) In a trunk.
(d) In the closet.

14. 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) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

15. 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 desert plants.
(c) They begin to see desert animals.
(d) They begin to see the tracks of Indians.