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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 innovation will be introduced to Ilhéus in the new hotel?
(a) A hot tub.
(b) A swimming pool.
(c) An elevator.
(d) An escalator.

2. Which two characters are rivals for the title of Ilhéus' most eloquent orator?
(a) Florzinha and Quinquina Dos Reis.
(b) The Doctor and the Capitan.
(c) Nacib and Mundinho Falção.
(d) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars and Colonel Ramiro Bastos.

3. Where does Dona Arminda announce that she is going when she meets Gabriela?
(a) To the Dos Reis sisters' house to see the Nativity tableau.
(b) To Teodoro's house for a séance.
(c) To the fish market to gossip.
(d) To church to hear mass.

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

5. Which distant ancestor of Dona Sinhàzinha is used to explain her tragic end?
(a) Colonel Luís Antônio d'Ávila.
(b) Dom Pedro II.
(c) Teodoro de Castro.
(d) Ofenísia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Gabriela use to describe Nacib that surprises him?

2. What project does Clóvis Costa present to the Colonel, only to be rejected?

3. Who is the patron saint of Ilhéus?

4. Whose attendance at Dona Sinhàzinha's wake surprises the other mourners?

5. What does Colonel Ramiro send Tonico to Rio to study?

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