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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," China Iron's husband is "conscripted." What happens to him?
(a) He is seriously injured by a horse.
(b) He is jailed for a debt.
(c) He is drowned in the flooded river.
(d) He is forced into service in the army.

2. In "We Branded Each and Every Animal," to what does China Iron compare the Indians they are following?
(a) Wolves.
(b) Cats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Oxen.

3. In "Tangled Legs," what comparison does Liz make that shocks China Iron?
(a) She compares Rosario to a parasite.
(b) She compares China Iron to a dog.
(c) She compares the fort to Paradise.
(d) She compares Hernández to God.

4. In "That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones," to what does China Iron compare traveling on horseback or in the wagon?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Hearing a story.
(c) Singing a song.
(d) Flying.

5. In "The Morbid Light of Dead Men's Bones," what does Liz say about China Iron's people?
(a) She says that they do not understand death.
(b) She calls them murderers.
(c) She says that they are less intelligent than the British.
(d) She calls them savages.

6. In "I Climaxed Too," what dynamic between China Iron and Liz is revealed?
(a) China Iron is too innocent to understand Liz's intentions.
(b) Liz dominates and controls their relationship.
(c) Liz is only attracted to the more feminine aspects of China Iron's personality.
(d) China Iron has been secretly manipulating Liz's emotions.

7. In "An Orphan's Fate," why does the landowner's son kill Rosario's horse?
(a) It kicked him.
(b) Rosario stole his girlfriend.
(c) It threw him.
(d) Rosario threatened him.

8. In "A Dust Cloud Can Linger," what does Rosario see coming toward them when the dust settles?
(a) A cattle stampede.
(b) A wagon headed in the opposite direction.
(c) Various wild animals.
(d) Armed men on horseback.

9. In "Tangled Legs," what word does the Colonel use to refer to his female servants?
(a) China.
(b) Parasites.
(c) Ladies.
(d) Larvae.

10. On page 98 of "Tangled Legs," what technique is being used when China Iron says that people started singing Martín Fierro's songs in places he had never been, "as I would discover right there in Hernández's fort"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Foreshadowing.

11. In "It Was the Brightness of the Light," who does China Iron reveal will later kill El Negro?
(a) La Negra.
(b) The estancia foreman.
(c) China Iron.
(d) Martín.

12. What Biblical allusion does China Iron make in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me"?
(a) The story of Jonah and the great fish.
(b) The story of Noah's ark.
(c) The story of Lot's wife.
(d) The story of the Good Samaritan.

13. In "The Wagon," what mission has Liz undertaken?
(a) Learning Spanish and teaching China Iron English.
(b) Learning how to drive a wagon and ride a horse.
(c) Teaching China Iron to read and write.
(d) Rescuing her husband and taking over the ranch they were supposed to run.

14. In "British Science," what object does China Iron become fascinated with?
(a) A compass.
(b) A book of myths.
(c) A pepper mill.
(d) An umbrella.

15. In "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," who begs Hernández to spare the lives of the gauchos who victimized Miss Daisy?
(a) The gauchos' wives.
(b) Hernández's wife.
(c) Miss Daisy.
(d) The gauchos' mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Dressed to the Nines," what makes China Iron, Liz, and Rosario love one another even more?

2. What is Elizabeth's husband's name?

3. At the end of "A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs," whom does Liz ask to see?

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

5. When Liz and China Iron meet Rosario in "Tank You Señora for Cure Me," what is he carrying?

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