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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?
(a) Florentino's lover
(b) Fermina's cousin
(c) Fermina's friend
(d) Florentino's cousin

2. What type of communication do Florentino and Fermina have at their first face to face meeting?
(a) Verbal and physical
(b) None
(c) Verbal only
(d) Physical only

3. Which of the following characters is a cousin to Fermina?
(a) Marquez
(b) Florentino
(c) Sanchez
(d) De Saint-Amour

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?

3. What physical injury caused Dr. Urbino's death?

4. Where does the sewage from the city drain?

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

(see the answer key)

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