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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a synonym for rumination as it is used in chapter four?
(a) Letters
(b) Mantra
(c) Reflection
(d) Love letters

2. How long is the mule trek on which Fermina goes with her father?
(a) 18 Weeks
(b) 18 Days
(c) 18 Months
(d) 18 Years

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

4. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?
(a) At her father's office
(b) Outside her school
(c) A church Mass
(d) Christmas Eve Mass

5. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?
(a) Perfect love and everlasting fidelity
(b) Perfect admiration and everlasting lust
(c) Perfect fidelity and everlasting love
(d) Perfect lust and everlasting admiration

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?

2. Who finally gives in and ends the estrangement of Fermina living with her cousin?

3. Why does Florentino fear that death will end his plans to win Fermina's heart?

4. Which of the following characters is a cousin to Fermina?

5. How could Dr. Urbino diagnose what killed the many corpses they see dotting the countryside from the air?

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