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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 a Charming Rascal, Of Twilight, Of the Intricate Ways of Love, or How Nacib Hired a Cook, and Of the Boat in the Forest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Doctor's book, what killed the poet Teodoro de Castro?
(a) A broken hip.
(b) A broken heart.
(c) Apoplexy.
(d) A ruptured appendix.

2. Where does Mundinho Falção's family live?
(a) São Paulo.
(b) Minas Gerais.
(c) Salvador.
(d) Rio de Janeiro.

3. Who objects to Anabela the ballerina's performance on grounds of morality?
(a) The Doctor.
(b) Nacib.
(c) Diogenes.
(d) Mundinho Falção.

4. How do the Dos Reis sisters support themselves financially?
(a) Dancing in a cabaret.
(b) Rental properties and selling cakes and candies.
(c) Teaching elementary school.
(d) Midwifery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What performance will take place at the movie theater?

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

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

4. Why is Clemente sad to reach Ilhéus?

5. Why are no bets placed on a murder trial of an unfaithful wife?

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