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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fermina's reply when Florentino finally proposes marriage?
(a) Very well, I will marry you if you promise to be faithful
(b) Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggs
(c) Very well, I will marry you if you promise me everlasting love
(d) Very, well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant

2. What business did Florentino's father help to found?
(a) River Company of Columbia
(b) Riverboat Company of Columbia
(c) River Company of the Caribbean
(d) Riverboat Incorporated

3. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?
(a) Dr. Juvenal Urbino
(b) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his cat
(c) His lover and caretaker
(d) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his dog

4. What is Florentino's first position at the riverboat company?
(a) Writing business letters for his uncle
(b) Trash collector
(c) Ownder of the company
(d) Captain of the river boat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the narrator in this novel?

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

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

4. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?

5. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?

(see the answer key)

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