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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juvenal Urbino's profession?
(a) Government official
(b) Doctor
(c) Photographer
(d) Artist

2. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?
(a) 50
(b) 51
(c) 49
(d) 55

3. Who helps to aid the communication between Fermina and Florentino?
(a) Florentino's uncle
(b) Florentino's mother
(c) Fermina's sister
(d) Fermina's aunt

4. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?
(a) Government official
(b) Photographer
(c) Artist
(d) Doctor

5. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?
(a) Post office master general
(b) Riverboat driver
(c) Riverboat trash collector
(d) Post office delivery

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?

2. What type of communication do Florentino and Fermina have at their first face to face meeting?

3. How many pages of love declarations has Florentino been writing to Fermina without her knowledge?

4. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?

5. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?

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