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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Part Three: Indian Territory": "Frothing like Foam" through "Most Were Naked and Beautiful.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chapter title "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin" refer to?
(a) The new language and customs that China Iron is gradually learning.
(b) The dust that China Iron and Liz are always battling.
(c) The constant glare of the sun.
(d) The new fabrics that China Iron has become used to.

2. In In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," what does Liz say makes scones taste better?
(a) Working hard to make them.
(b) Butter and cream.
(c) Jam.
(d) The open air.

3. In "Under the British Empire," what does China Iron conclude about the Northern Hemisphere?
(a) That the people there are unusually violent.
(b) That things must grow upward more easily there.
(c) That it is unfair how much wealth is in that part of the world.
(d) That it is just pretend, like Liz's example of a head without a body.

4. In "British Science," to what does China Iron compare Argentina?
(a) A china (woman).
(b) A womb.
(c) A gaucho.
(d) A cow.

5. In "Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin," how does the narrator indicate time passing rapidly?
(a) She describes the wagon traveling through a map of the pampas.
(b) She offers a montage of scenes from their travels.
(c) She tells how tall she was when she left and how tall she was when she arrived.
(d) She describes the many books she has learned how to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands," why does China Iron look forward to the rain?

2. How old was Rosario when he left home?

3. In "An Erratic Flight," what does China Iron say "doubles happiness" (148)?

4. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," what does Rosa spend time each day brushing off the oxen?

5. In In "The Whip and the Rod," on page 116, when China Iron asks Liz why she is being so domineering, what does Liz reply?

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