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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. What is the "cãna" referred to several times in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) A hand-rolled cigarette.
(b) A temporary camp.
(c) A method for cooking beef outdoors.
(d) An alcoholic beverage.

2. In "A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what do the travelers see being constructed outside the fort?
(a) A ditch.
(b) A tower.
(c) A gallows.
(d) Fencing.

3. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what does the Colonel say about the mixed ancestry of the gauchos?
(a) They are a new kind of man.
(b) Their loyalties are always divided.
(c) They did not inherit the best qualities of either race.
(d) They represent both the past and the future of Argentina.

4. In "Do Come In, My Dear," what is the name of the Colonel who is in charge at the fort?
(a) Ruiz.
(b) Moreno.
(c) Hernández.
(d) García.

5. In the opening of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," to what does the Colonel compare the Indians?
(a) Demons.
(b) Dragons.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what causes China Iron to draw her knife?

2. In "British Science," what is an ombú?

3. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?

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

5. In "An Orphan's Fate," why does the landowner's son kill Rosario's horse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Colors Become Detached from Their Objects," what is the significance of China Iron's comparison of Liz to a mare and a puma?

4. In "Tangled Legs," what does the recitation of the poem imply about the Colonel's identity, and how is this implication confirmed?

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

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

7. In "An Orphan's Fate," how does Rosario come to live as a gaucho on an estancia?

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

9. Explain the analogy that China Iron uses in "British Science," in which she compares Great Britain to a "voracious heart" (55).

10. In "Tangled Legs," what are Rosario's complaints about how he has to live while at the estancia?

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