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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following events does NOT make Fermina more lost to Florentino than she had ever been according to Florentino?
(a) Interested in him
(b) Pregnant
(c) Rejecting him
(d) Married

2. What vision did Florentino give up in regard to Fermina?
(a) Making her pregnant
(b) Marrying her
(c) Showering her with gold and treasure
(d) Writing to her

3. How many publishers expressed an interest in publishing Florentino's book, which he entitled A Lover's Companion?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 0

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

5. Which position was Florentino demoted to by his uncle?
(a) Mail clerk
(b) Trash collector
(c) Writing business letters for his uncle
(d) Riverboat captain

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the mule trek on which Fermina goes with her father?

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

3. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?

4. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?

5. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?

(see the answer key)

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