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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. Where does Tonico Bastos work?
(a) His father's cacao plantation.
(b) An engineering firm in Itabuna.
(c) A notary's office in Ilhéus.
(d) A hospital in Bahia.

2. Who offers Gabriela a house of her own if she leaves Nacib?
(a) Tonico Bastos.
(b) The Judge.
(c) Colonel Ribeirinho.
(d) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars.

3. Why does the Fagundes refrain from talking back to Colonel Melk Tavares when he is belittled?
(a) Melk has given him serious beatings.
(b) Melk has threatened to kill him.
(c) Melk rescued him from the police once.
(d) Melk pays him twice as much as the other workers.

4. To which two historical figures does the Doctor compare the men responsible for the burning of the Ilhéus Daily?
(a) Torquemada and Nero.
(b) Napoleon and Toussaint L'Ouverture.
(c) Joan of Arc and Goliath.
(d) Ivan the Terrible and Czar Nicholas I.

5. At the dance for the inauguration for the new headquarters of the Commerical Association, with whom does Malvina dance every dance?
(a) Osmundo.
(b) Nacib.
(c) Mundinho.
(d) Rômulo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Gabriela's first lover?

2. What are Prince Sandra's and Anabela's respective occupations?

3. Why does Mundinho leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Ilhéus initially?

4. How much time elapses between Mundinho's announcement that an engineer will be sent from Rio and the arrival of Dr. Rômulo Vieira?

5. Why does Dona Arminda believe that Gabriela must be a natural spirit medium?

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