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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 "But We Don't Have Any Weapons," what does China Iron reveal sometimes get stuck in the trees?
(a) The children.
(b) Their tents.
(c) Their cattle.
(d) Their hammocks.

2. On page 174 of "But We Don't Have Any Weapons," why does China Iron say that her new community believes that they can live peacefully in their new territory?
(a) Because "We know how to disappear."
(b) Because "Argentines are lazy."
(c) Because "Guarani are peaceful."
(d) Because "The land will hide us."

3. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what does China Iron feel for the first time as the Colonel talks about Martín?
(a) That she loves Martín.
(b) That the economy is unfairly structured.
(c) That she misses her children.
(d) That she owns something.

4. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what does the word "Winka" refer to?
(a) Indians.
(b) Gauchos.
(c) White people.
(d) Outsiders.

5. In "The Whip and the Rod," what does China Iron observe about the way work happens at the fort?
(a) All of the profit goes to the Colonel, but he does not seem to do any of the work.
(b) Some of the workers seem to be deliberately sabotaging the process.
(c) It is done assembly-line style, with each worker engaged in one small repetitive task all day.
(d) It seems to make the gauchos and the chinas happy to be productive.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "You Fucking Whore!" how many men are murdered by jealous gauchos?

2. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?

3. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what is the name of the lagoon?

4. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what claim does the Colonel make about having stolen Martín Fierro's writing?

5. In "Goodbye Colonel," what reason does the Colonel give for lying about the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Contemplating the Trees," what specialty have China Iron, Liz, and Rosario developed?

2. Explain how the Indian cook and his assistants get their portion of food.

3. What is ironic about the Colonel's belief that he did Martín Fierro a favor by stealing his poetry?

4. In what way does the use of indigenous words in "Part Three: Indian Territory" support the novel's themes?

5. What transformation in Martín does China Iron see when she first visits his tent, and what causes her to feel this way?

6. When China Iron swims in the lagoon in In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what vision does she have?

7. Describe the variety of people living at the Indian encampment.

8. Although it is dispersed over several chapters, what is the chronological story of the community's relationship with the Guarani?

9. In "Punch and Whiskey," what plan does Liz enact?

10. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what does China Iron feel is happening when she first embraces Kauka, and what does it cause her to realize?

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