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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Third Chapter: The Secret of Malvina, Sections titled Of Newspapers and Hearts on Fire, Gabriela and Arminda, By Lamplight, and Of the Ball and the Englishwoman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason that Nacib has never married?
(a) He does not like children.
(b) He enjoys his bachelor lifestyle.
(c) He prefers solitude.
(d) He does not want to have to kill his wife if she deceives him.

2. Who is considered to be the most elegant man in Ilhéus?
(a) Alfredo Bastos.
(b) Tonico Bastos.
(c) Mundinho Falção.
(d) Nacib.

3. Tonico tells Nacib that which of Ilhéus' illustrious gentlemen is interested in setting up Gabriela in a house of her own?
(a) Colonel Melk Tavares.
(b) Colonel Ramiro Bastos.
(c) Colonel Ribeirinho.
(d) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars.

4. Whom does Tonico Bastos fear?
(a) His godfather.
(b) His father.
(c) His wife.
(d) His brother.

5. What jobs are available in Ilhéus for men who have no trade?
(a) Constructing houses and other buildings.
(b) Business.
(c) Working in the cacao warehouses or on the docks.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position is the Captain given after he loses the position of official orator?

2. Who is the only person in the bar to openly express sadness at the killing of Dona Sinhàzinha?

3. What does Nacib tell Mundinho that Colonel Ramiro Bastos called him?

4. How does Nacib receive Brazilian citizenship?

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

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