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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?
(a) International
(b) Sophisticated
(c) Mixed
(d) Insular

2. To what is Florentino a patron?
(a) Dr. Urbino
(b) Brothels
(c) Cultural events
(d) Riverboat company

3. What is the name of the harbor town that is the setting for this novel?
(a) Hildebranda
(b) Paris
(c) Columbia
(d) Nameless

4. What can the aging bodies of Florentino and Fermina be seen as symbols of?
(a) Love aging
(b) Suicide
(c) Love divided
(d) A dying country

5. Which of the following is NOT a plague that affected people in this time period in Columbia?
(a) Civil War
(b) Cholera
(c) AIDS
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the riverbanks they saw as they sailed down the river?

2. Where does Florentino see Fermina after she has returned from living with her cousin for two years?

3. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?

4. Which of the following terms does NOT describe the arrangement between Dr. Urbino and Fermina while she lived with her cousin?

5. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?

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