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

2. How does Nacib receive Brazilian citizenship?
(a) His father purchases a birth certificate from the notary Segismundo.
(b) His mother was Brazilian, so he is a dual citizen.
(c) He is awarded citizenship after serving in the armed forces.
(d) He takes an exam and becomes a naturalized citizen.

3. Where does Nacib go after attending Dr. Osmundo's wake to dispel the vision of death?
(a) To the cabaret to see Anabela's performance.
(b) To church to hear mass.
(c) To the bar to work
(d) Home to Gabriela.

4. What is one reason that Nacib has never married?
(a) He does not like children.
(b) He enjoys his bachelor lifestyle.
(c) He does not want to have to kill his wife if she deceives him.
(d) He prefers solitude.

5. What socially recognized relationship does Father Basílio have with the children he fathered with Otália?
(a) He is their close friend.
(b) He is their stepfather.
(c) He is their adoptive father.
(d) He is their godfather.