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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What game does the Captain attempt to teach Gabriela?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Old maid.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Chess.

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

4. What is Dona Sinhàzinha wearing when she dies?
(a) A housecoat.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Black stockings.
(d) White lingerie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Nacib go after attending Dr. Osmundo's wake to dispel the vision of death?

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

5. Who takes the rose that Gabriela wears behind her ear and puts it in his buttonhole?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gabriela not want to attend the poetry lecture with Nacib? What deeper issues does this situation reveal in their relationship?

2. Why has Filomena finally decided to go and live with her son in Água Preta? Who brings Nacib the news of her departure, and why does he disregard the notice?

3. What is the general opinion of the lecture given by the federal examination supervisor? How does his compare with Dr. Argileu? Whose attendance at the event makes the evening memorable?

4. What project are the Dos Reis sisters famous for engaging in every year? When is this project displayed? How has this project changed in recent years?

5. How does the Commercial Association rescue art in Ilhéus? Who performs at the dance for the inauguration of the new headquarters? How does the crowd respond?

6. How does Mundinho Falção send birthday wishes to Colonel Ramiro Bastos? How does the Colonel receive his message?

7. What natural phenomenon threatens the cacao crop at the beginning of the novel? How do the inhabitants of Ilhéus respond to this situation?

8. Who performs Nacib and Gabriela's marriage ceremony? Why is a religious ceremony not a possibility for the couple?

9. Why does Nacib first notice Gabriela at the slave market? What remark from Gabriela makes him offer her the job as his cook?

10. Why does Gloria leave the door to her house unlocked? Why does no one dare to enter?

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