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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In"A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what is the name of the fort?
2. In "An Orphan's Fate," what is the name of Rosario's boyhood horse?
3. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," how does the idea of dragons in the pampas make China Iron feel?
4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what criticism does China Iron level at her own country?
5. Who is Juan Manuel de Rosas?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," why do they brand the cattle, and how is it accomplished?
2. In "I Was Burning My Bridges," who is Raúl, and what happens to him?
3. In "Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together," what are the two kinds of perspective that China Iron is learning?
4. In "An Orphan's Fate," how does Rosario come to live as a gaucho on an estancia?
5. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," what is the punishment that Miss Daisy devises for the men who attacked her?
6. Explain the analogy that China Iron uses in "British Science," in which she compares Great Britain to a "voracious heart" (55).
7. In "Colors Become Detached from Their Objects," what does China Iron observe about Liz's whiteness?
8. In "Suspended in the Air," what is the rhetorical purpose of the extended discussion of vizcachas?
9. In "Tangled Legs," what does the recitation of the poem imply about the Colonel's identity, and how is this implication confirmed?
10. In "Colors Become Detached from Their Objects," what is the significance of China Iron's comparison of Liz to a mare and a puma?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the changes in Liz's behavior while they are at Hernández's fort. Your essay should explain what changes in her behavior, what part of the changes is pretense and what part is sincere, and what the significance of the changes is to the overall text. Be sure to offer textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you consider the significance of Hernández's plagiarism. What claims is the text making about stories and imperialism? Be sure to offer textual support for your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you evaluate the utopia in "Part Three: Indian Territory." Divide your essay into two sections. First, provide an analytical section in which you show why this is a "paradise" for China Iron, using textual evidence to back your claims. Second, make and defend a claim about whether this is a more generalizable utopia--that is, would it function as a paradise for most humans? In this second section, you are not being asked to make moral or ethical claims. Instead, base your evaluation in psychological and sociological research on human happiness. Be sure to cite all sources in MLA format.
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