The numerous ailments of the digestive tract common in the colonial era of Brazil.
What are the "bad vapors"?
100
The Portuguese term for "a professionally brave man, often a bodyguard".
What is a "capanga"?
100
The most stable, the best-balanced, and possibly the best-nourished people in Brazil after the gold-and-diamond-rush phase was over in colonial Brazil.
Who are the inhabitants of Minas Gerais?
100
The day of our first class of the week.
What is "terça-feira"?
200
A Brazilian martial art , that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music. It was developed in Brazil mainly by enslaved Africans at the beginning in the 16th century.
What is Capoeira?
200
The diet of the lords of the manor in colonial Pernambuco and Bahia consisted of these two food items.
What are a bad quality of beef and a few worm-eaten fruits?
200
Originally, a term for a back-country ruffian of the Bahian backyards.
What is a "jagunço"?
200
From the point of view of nutrition, the most salutary influence in the Brazilian's development has been that of this people.
Who is the African?
200
The day of our second class of the week.
What is "sexta-feira"?
300
Some of the fears of the slave owners in Brazil mentioned in the documentary.
What are fear of being poisoned, fear of revolt, and fear of demonic rituals (powerful witched) performed by the enslaved Africans?
300
The governors of the "Capitânia" required plantation owners to plant this for each slave he possessed.
What is a thousand mounds of manihot?
300
Portuguese term for an inhabitant of the back lands.
What is a "sertanejo"?
300
These three foods were sources of nourishment suited to the hard labor demanded of an agricultural slave.
What are corn, salt pork, and beans?
300
The Portuguese word for "today".
What is "hoje"?
400
According to the documentary, where Africa persisted in the lives of the enslaved Africans in Brazil.
What are in music, dance, and religion?
400
These three things seriously interfered with the food supply for the majority of the population in colonial Brazil.
What are termites, floods, and droughts?
400
The Portuguese term for a bandit, one who is laden with the cangaço, or bundle of weapons that bands carry in northeastern Brazil.
What is a "cangaceiro"?
400
The age of the son of the plantation owner's first sexual experience.
What is twelve or thirteen?
400
How to say "good afternoon" in Portuguese.
What is "boa tarde"?
500
More enslaved Africans came and continued to come to Brazil far longer into the 19th Century than they did to the plantations in the US. This meant a constant renewal and fresh African influence on the Brazilian experience.
What explains the outstanding differences between Brazil and the US South (with regards to the cultural heritage of the enslaved Africans)?
500
There was an abundance of these three food items in colonial Salvador da Bahia made primarily by the nuns in the convents.
What are sweets, jellies, and pastries?
500
The Portuguese term for the native Indian in Brazil.
What is "caboclo"?
500
The disease par excellence of the Big Houses and the slave quarters.
What is syphilis?
500
The name of the Brazilian food and drink that I serve at my monthly Portuguese language meeting.