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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 words best describes how Fermina Daza acted during the funeral and wake for her husband?
(a) Emotional
(b) Jubilant
(c) Grief-stricken
(d) Stoic

2. Which of the following was Florentino's mother?
(a) Fermina
(b) Lorenzo
(c) Don Pius
(d) Transito

3. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?
(a) This pussy is mine
(b) All mine
(c) Mine
(d) Florentino was here

4. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Cholera
(c) Intestinal infection
(d) She is pregnant

5. What does Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?
(a) Liaison with Widow Nazaret
(b) Lack of her being in the same city
(c) Age and wisdom
(d) 622 liaisons

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dr. Urbino's father introduced which helped to curb a large cholera epidemic?

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

3. How many children did Florentino have?

4. Why had Florentino maintained his virginity even through his days at the brothel?

5. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?

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