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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 Of Temptation at the Window, Of the Cruel Law, Of Black Stockings, and Of the Law of Concubines.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which organization do the high society women who walk barefoot in the procession belong?
(a) The Daughters of Mary.
(b) Sisters of Charity.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) The Progress Club.

2. Why is Clemente sad to reach Ilhéus?
(a) He will have to find work as a bricklayer.
(b) He will be reunited with his wife.
(c) He will have to learn how to plant cacao.
(d) He will be separated from Gabriela.

3. With which family member does Gabriela travel to Ilhéus?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her mother-in-law.
(d) Her father.

4. What crop is threatened by both lack of rain and excessive rain in Ilhéus in the year 1925?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Bananas.
(c) Brazil nuts.
(d) Cacao.

5. Who donates the photos of movie stars to the Dos Reis sisters' Nativity tableau?
(a) Mundinho Falção.
(b) The students at the parochial school.
(c) Colonel Ramiro Bastos.
(d) The parishoners at the local church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Ilhéus?

2. Who brings news of Colonel Jesuíno's crime to those congregated at Nacib's bar?

3. What socially recognized relationship does Father Basílio have with the children he fathered with Otália?

4. According to the Doctor's book, with which historical figure did his ancestor Ofenísia have a clandestine romance?

5. Who objects to Anabela the ballerina's performance on grounds of morality?

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