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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Second Chapter: The Loneliness of Gloria, Sections titled Gabriela Asleep, Of Food and Funerals, A Parenthetical Story with a Moral, and The Banquet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colonel Ramiro send Tonico to Rio to study?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

2. What word does Gabriela use to describe Nacib that surprises him?
(a) Fat.
(b) Sad.
(c) Jolly.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What adjective is used to describe Chico?
(a) Strong.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Handsome.

4. Who informs Colonel Ramiro Bastos that Mundinho Falção has ensured the accreditation of the Ilhéus high school?
(a) Nacib.
(b) Enoch.
(c) Professor Josué.
(d) The Governor.

5. Whose attendance at Dona Sinhàzinha's wake surprises the other mourners?
(a) Colonel Jesuíno.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Colonel Ramiro Bastos.
(d) Malvina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is Nacib's employee and brings him the news that Filomena is leaving Ilhéus?

2. With whom does Nacib go to Dr. Osmundo's wake?

3. What does Anabela ask the men at the bar to write for her?

4. Why is Clemente sad to reach Ilhéus?

5. Where do the female gossips gather in Ilhéus?

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