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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 Florentino pledge to Fermina?
(a) Eternal fidelity and everlasting love
(b) Eternal love and everlasting sex
(c) Eternal love and everlasting fidelity
(d) Love and sexual adventures

2. To what is Florentino a patron?
(a) Dr. Urbino
(b) Brothels
(c) Cultural events
(d) Riverboat company

3. Who moves in with Florentino and his mother when he returns home from his post in the mountains?
(a) A widow
(b) A soldier of the civil war
(c) Ferina Daza
(d) His father

4. Which of the following characters was murdered?
(a) Leona Cassiani
(b) Dr. Urbino
(c) Olimpia Zuleta
(d) America Vicuna

5. 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) Self-contradictory statement
(b) Something absurd or contradictory
(c) Surprising
(d) Person of opposites

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Florentino go to because Fermina always announces the winners?

2. Why does Fermina's father take her on a mule trek?

3. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?

4. Which of the following is a synonym for rumination as it is used in chapter four?

5. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?

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