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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," how does Liz react to learning that China Iron does not have her own name?
(a) She tells China that she must have misunderstood.
(b) She says that China's people are savages.
(c) She laughs and shrugs.
(d) She cries.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "An Orphan's Fate," what is the name of Rosario's boyhood horse?

2. Who is Martín Fierro?

3. In In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what does Liz say makes scones taste better?

4. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," how does China Iron end up getting married?

5. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what does Liz draw for China Iron at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," what observations does China Iron make about the gauchos' attitude toward Indians and whites?

2. In "An Orphan's Fate," what does Rosario do after he kills the landowner's son?

3. In "A Prophet With a Paintbrush," what motive for coming to Argentina does Liz reveal?

4. In "La China Isn't a Name," what changes for China Iron the first time she sees herself in a mirror?

5. In "Colors Become Detached from Their Objects," what does China Iron observe about Liz's whiteness?

6. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," who is Raúl, and what happens to him?

7. In "Suspended in the Air," what is the rhetorical purpose of the extended discussion of vizcachas?

8. In "Tangled Legs," why does China Iron compare the ditch to a branding iron?

9. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," why do they brand the cattle, and how is it accomplished?

10. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what ideas about the gauchos does the Colonel express?

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