View a FREE sample

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. 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) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars and Colonel Ramiro Bastos.
(d) Nacib and Mundinho Falção.

2. With whom does Mundinho play checkers and backgammon?
(a) Jacob the Russian.
(b) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars.
(c) Nacib.
(d) The Captain.

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

4. Who is the proprietor of the Vesuvius Bar?
(a) Nacib.
(b) Jacob the Russian.
(c) Mundinho Falção.
(d) Filomena.

5. How long has Nacib owned the Vesuvius bar?
(a) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Eighteen years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character is Nacib's employee and brings him the news that Filomena is leaving Ilhéus?

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

4. What is one reason that Nacib has never married?

5. What is Dona Sinhàzinha wearing when she dies?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 265 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample