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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Gabriela's friends stops coming to visit her after she becomes Mrs. Saad?
(a) Fagundes.
(b) Clemente.
(c) Tuísca.
(d) Tonico.

2. Why does Dona Arminda believe that Gabriela must be a natural spirit medium?
(a) Gabriela is able to predict the weather.
(b) Gabriela talks to ghosts.
(c) Gabriela made friends with a mean stray cat.
(d) Gabriela is able to predict the future.

3. Why does the Fagundes refrain from talking back to Colonel Melk Tavares when he is belittled?
(a) Melk pays him twice as much as the other workers.
(b) Melk has threatened to kill him.
(c) Melk has given him serious beatings.
(d) Melk rescued him from the police once.

4. Who first suggests to Nacib that he hire Gabriela as the cook for the Commerce Restaurant?
(a) Mundinho Falção.
(b) Tonico Bastos.
(c) João Fulgêncio.
(d) Dona Arminda.

5. What happens to Aristóteles after leaving the hospital?
(a) He is struck by lightning.
(b) He recovers and gains some weight.
(c) He is involved in a bus accident.
(d) He becomes gravely ill and dies.

6. Why is Professor Josué's heart in mourning?
(a) Malvina spends time walking on the avenue with the engineer.
(b) Malvina has become ill and died.
(c) Malvina has become engaged to Mundinho.
(d) Malvina has decided to join a convent.

7. At the dance for the inauguration for the new headquarters of the Commerical Association, with whom does Malvina dance every dance?
(a) Nacib.
(b) Mundinho.
(c) Osmundo.
(d) Rômulo.

8. Who escorts Gabriela home from Colonel Ramiro Bastos' house on the night of the manhunt?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Alfredo Bastos, his wife, and Jerusa.
(c) Tonico Bastos.
(d) Dr. Demosthenes.

9. Which character is driven by Christian charity to sit in the seat vacated by Dr. Alfredo's wife at the lecture on New Currents in Modern Literature?
(a) Father Basílio.
(b) Jerusa.
(c) Professor Josué.
(d) Tonico Bastos.

10. Why is the bird that Nacib purchases for Gabriela called a sofrê?
(a) It is yellow.
(b) It is small.
(c) It is beautiful.
(d) It has a sad song.

11. Who offers Gabriela a house of her own if she leaves Nacib?
(a) Tonico Bastos.
(b) Colonel Manuel of the Jaguars.
(c) The Judge.
(d) Colonel Ribeirinho.

12. Why has Gabriela been helping Dona Arminda with her housework?
(a) She has been sick.
(b) She has been very depressed.
(c) She has been out of town.
(d) She has been attending séances.

13. What does Nacib do on the day following his discussion with Mundinho about Gabriela and the restaurant?
(a) Asks Gabriela to come back to him.
(b) Buys an iron stove.
(c) Sells Gabriela's jewelry and clothing.
(d) Sends for a cook from Rio.

14. Mundinho Falção announces his candidacy for what office?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Governor.
(c) Federal congressman.
(d) Head of the Municipal Council.

15. Who leads the group of hoodlums that attempt to beat up the engineer in charge of the sandbar project in an effort to force him to leave Ilhéus?
(a) Whitey.
(b) Colonel Ramiro Bastos.
(c) Colonel Amâncio Leal.
(d) Colonel Melk Tavares.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is grateful to Gabriela for bringing news of Fagundes' escape?

2. What does Tonico Bastos counsel Nacib to do when Nacib confesses his love for Gabriela?

3. To what does Colonel Altino attribute his decision to support Mundinho over Colonel Ramiro Bastos?

4. For what favor is Gabriela indebted to Fagundes?

5. What has Colonel Amâncio lost during his years fighting?

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