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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?
(a) 60 years
(b) 50 years
(c) 30 years
(d) 70 years

2. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?
(a) Ethical
(b) Without reproach
(c) Questionable
(d) Criminal

3. Which word best describes the narrator in this novel?
(a) Omnipotent
(b) Omnipresent
(c) Omnithought
(d) Omniscient

4. In what way was Leona Cassiani important to Florentino?
(a) Employer
(b) Lover
(c) Confidante
(d) Writer

5. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?
(a) Physical illness
(b) Lovesickness
(c) Laziness
(d) Rejection

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Florentino resolve to become in order to win Fermina?

4. Which of the following means the same as mortal as it is used in this chapter?

5. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?

(see the answer key)

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