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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 "Punch and Whisky," why does China Iron spend the day listening to the Colonel's drunken ramblings?
(a) He physically prevents her from leaving him.
(b) She is interested in his ideas about the Argentine economy.
(c) She is trying to figure out how to get justice for her family.
(d) Liz has told her to keep the Colonel occupied.

2. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what reason does the Colonel give for allowing Martín to sing to the workers?
(a) He wanted to hear the songs so that he could turn them into poems and sell them.
(b) Martín's semi-literate verses amused him because they were so rough and crude.
(c) Keeping the gauchos happy is important because they outnumber the soldiers.
(d) Martín was not useful for other kinds of work.

3. In the section of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro" that Liz quotes in "Goodbye Colonel," whom do the Indians kill?
(a) A white landowner.
(b) A gaucho and his wife.
(c) A white woman and her child.
(d) A fort full of soldiers.

4. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," how does China Iron react to Liz's story about her final conversation with the Colonel?
(a) She wonders if she really knows Liz as well as she thinks she does.
(b) She realizes that Liz was only pretending to like the Colonel's ideas the whole time at the fort.
(c) She feels like Liz is being distant and acting like they have never been intimate.
(d) She thinks that Liz might have been happier to stay at the fort and is afraid for their future.

5. In "The Earth Croaked," what causes China Iron to take so long to notice that they are traveling uphill?
(a) She is listening to Rosario's stories about the Indians.
(b) She is reading a copy of "El Gaucho Martín Fierro."
(c) She is preoccupied with longing for Liz.
(d) She is trying to learn the English words for the animals around them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Oh China, Love, Forgive Me Now," what symbolizes China Iron's and Martín's new gender identities?

2. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," what is the name of the first Indian to embrace China Iron?

3. In the beginning of "An Erratic Flight," what is China Iron conveying with her list of colors?

4. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," why do the travelers not know where to stop their wagon?

5. In "The Whip and the Rod," what does China Iron observe about the way work happens at the fort?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is Martín's argument for forgiveness in "Oh China, Love, Forgive Me Now"?

3. What goods and presents does the Colonel give Liz as she, China Iron, and Rosario are leaving?

4. Explain the political organization of China Iron's new community.

5. In "Contemplating the Trees," what do most of the plants that China Iron describes seem to have in common, and what is their purpose?

6. In "Frothing like Foam," what stokes China Iron's desire for Liz, and why does she not act upon it?

7. While the Colonel is telling Martin's story in "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," why is China Iron both fearful and relieved?

8. In "That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer," what causes China Iron to want to hit the Colonel with a stick?

9. In "Most Were Naked and Beautiful," how do the Indians come to speak perfect Spanish?

10. In "But We Don't Have Any Weapons," what argument does the community have, and who is on each side of the dispute?

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