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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Dr. Urbino's father introduced which helped to curb a large cholera epidemic?
(a) Sewage treatment facilities
(b) Sanitized water
(c) Vaccinations
(d) Public health measures

2. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?
(a) Biased
(b) Fiery
(c) Dispassionate
(d) Unfair

3. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?
(a) All of the letters Fermina has written to him over the years
(b) His lovers
(c) Passionate letters to Fermina
(d) His writings and meditations

4. Who moves in with Florentino and his mother when he returns home from his post in the mountains?
(a) A widow
(b) A soldier of the civil war
(c) His father
(d) Ferina Daza

5. What is Fermina's reply when Florentino finally proposes marriage?
(a) Very, well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant
(b) Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggs
(c) Very well, I will marry you if you promise me everlasting love
(d) Very well, I will marry you if you promise to be faithful

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?

2. What is Florentino's first position at the riverboat company?

3. Which of the following words best describes how Fermina Daza acted during the funeral and wake for her husband?

4. What does Florentino tell his uncle is the only thing he cares about?

5. While in the marketplace, Fermina bargains over fabric for what?

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