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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Florentino describe brief flings?
(a) Exciting
(b) Not worthy of describing
(c) Memorable
(d) Outstanding

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

4. How do you think Dr. Urbino felt about Paris?
(a) Did not like it
(b) Loved it
(c) Enjoyed it but did not care to return
(d) Liked it

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) Surprising
(c) Something absurd or contradictory
(d) Person of opposites

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following characters was obsessed with cholera?

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

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

5. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?

(see the answer key)

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