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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which event would Florentino and Dr. Urbino most likely have crossed paths?
(a) Government meeting
(b) Art show
(c) Riverboat convention
(d) Medical Convention

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

3. What vision did Florentino give up in regard to Fermina?
(a) Writing to her
(b) Marrying her
(c) Showering her with gold and treasure
(d) Making her pregnant

4. What does Florentino call his clandestine liaisons with many different women?
(a) Companion hunting
(b) Solitary hunting
(c) Solitary loving
(d) Companion loving

5. What does Florentino tell his uncle is the only thing he cares about?
(a) Writing
(b) Love
(c) Work
(d) Fermina

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the bodies which Florentino sees floating in the river victims of?

3. Which of the following is the best definition for clandestine as it is used in chapter four?

4. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?

5. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?

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