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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the rumors indicate that Fermina has fled when she leaves the city?
(a) To the countryside
(b) Her cousin's house
(c) To another country
(d) A hospital for the rich

2. Which character has the more optimistic view of aging?
(a) Marquez
(b) Fermina Daza
(c) Florentino
(d) De Saint-Amour

3. What happens to Florentino as he waits for a response to his letter from Fermina?
(a) He has diarrhea, green vomit and fainting spells
(b) None, he stays quite healthy
(c) He has green vomit and fainting spells
(d) He has just diarrhea

4. Which event in chapter five is used to demonstrate that Fermina and Dr. Urbino's serious troubles are distant and insignificant?
(a) Florentino's declaration of love to Fermina
(b) Florentino's seduction of the underage relative
(c) The balloon ride after delivering the letter
(d) The balloon ride to deliver the letter

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the term disfigured mean?

4. Which of the following is NOT a step that Dr. Juvenal Urbino takes to help stop the spread of cholera?

5. Which of the following is a definition for inamorata?

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