Love in the Time of Cholera Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What is Juvenal Urbino's profession?

Doctor

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

They played chess

3. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?

Photographer

4. Why was Dr. Urbino called to de Saint-Amour's home?

To certify his death

5. What did de Saint-Amour vow to do when he reached the age of sixty?

Take his own life

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

To avoid suffering the ravages of old age

7. Why did his lover help him?

Because she loved him

8. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?

Gold cyanide

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

Mister Woodrow Wilson, his dog

10. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?

A letter

11. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?

Cannibalism and fleeing a life sentence in...
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