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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. To whom does Mundinho Falção confess the reason for his initial move to Ilhéus?
(a) Jacob the Russian.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Nacib.
(d) Colonel Ramiro Bastos.

2. Why is Ezequiel Prado annoyed with the Bastoses?
(a) He was not appointed drain commissioner.
(b) He was not made president of the municipal council.
(c) They refused to give him a loan for his small business.
(d) They refused to invest in his bus company.

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

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

5. Who is the only person in the bar to openly express sadness at the killing of Dona Sinhàzinha?
(a) Anabela.
(b) Nacib.
(c) Diogenes.
(d) Professor Josué.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nacib born?

2. Who advises Clemente to forget about Gabriela?

3. Jesuíno takes refuge after killing his wife and Osmundo in the house of ______________.

4. What job with the circus does Tuísca claim to have been offered?

5. Where does Mundinho Falção's family live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dr. Osmundo's funeral procession. Who are the attendees? What is significant about the route that the procession takes?

2. What does Colonel Altino Brandão suggest that Mundinho do to make himself less of an outsider to Ilhéus? Whom does he suggest would be an appropriate candidate to select for this purpose?

3. What does Nacib claim is the punishment for female infidelity in his father's country? What does he claim is the punishment for a man found guilty of infidelity?

4. Is Nacib interested in being married? Why has he not yet married?

5. What innovation do Jacob the Russian and Moacir Estrêla introduce to Ilhéus? Why is this significant?

6. Who is the man hired to shoot Colonel Aristóteles Pires? In whose yard does this man end up after fleeing from the members of the manhunt?

7. Who is responsible for the accreditation of the high school in Ilhéus? What is Colonel Ramiro Bastos' reaction to this news? Why?

8. What does Malvina plan to do after the beating by her father? Why do her plans change, and how does she feel about these changes?

9. Aside from harvesting cacao, what other work has Fagundes done for Colonel Melk Tavares? What did he think of this work and why?

10. What is Dona Arminda's profession? How has her occupation changed with new progressive ideas, and what is her opinion of these changes?

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