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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?
(a) She will become a woman
(b) She will forget about Florentino
(c) She will support him
(d) She will take over his business

2. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?
(a) Post office master general
(b) Riverboat driver
(c) Riverboat trash collector
(d) Post office delivery

3. How does Fermina treat Florentino when she comes face to face with him in the market place?
(a) Warm thoughts
(b) Cold language
(c) Hugs and relief
(d) Cold dismissal

4. Which of the following is the best definition for the term paradoxically as used to describe the narrator's telling of the trivial matters of domestic life that nearly caused the strong bond between husband and wife to disintegrate?
(a) Person of opposites
(b) Self-contradictory statement
(c) Something absurd or contradictory
(d) Surprising

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?

2. What event will Dr. Urbino be attending which he would like to take a siesta before he must get ready for?

3. Why did Dr. Urbino's death cause much grief and an official time of mourning?

4. How old is Fermina Daza when Dr. Urbino meets her?

5. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?

(see the answer key)

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