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

2. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what does the Colonel claim to embody?
(a) Argentina's history.
(b) Imperial power.
(c) God.
(d) The man of the future.

3. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," what draws China Iron to the puppy that she eventually adopts?
(a) It seems unusually clever.
(b) Its youth and radiance.
(c) It is starving and sick.
(d) It is an English dog.

4. In "British Science," what has China Iron begun to call Rosario?
(a) Vaquero.
(b) Gaucho.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Rosarito.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Rosario when he left home?

3. In "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," what does Liz compare their journey to?

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what criticism does China Iron level at her own country?

5. In "Suspended in the Air," what wakes China Iron in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what are the two kinds of perspective that China Iron is learning?

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

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

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 "By Dint of Force," what is Liz's theory about Great Britain's reaction to its geography?

6. In "The Wagon," what does China Iron discover about the dust and Liz's feelings about it?

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

8. When Liz kisses China Iron, in "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank," how does China Iron respond?

9. What metaphor does China Iron use to describe the Colonel's vomit in In "Colors Become Detached from Their Objects," and what is its significance?

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

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