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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?
(a) Artist
(b) Doctor
(c) Government official
(d) Photographer

2. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?
(a) He bought art from him
(b) They were lovers
(c) They played chess
(d) He photographed him

3. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?
(a) Overdose of medication
(b) Gold cyanide
(c) Hanging
(d) Gunshot

4. In what way do the hymns which Florentino is playing during Mass change during his period of illness?
(a) They begin to sound more like love waltzes
(b) They begin to include many errors
(c) He plays them at a much more rapid pace
(d) He plays them out of tune

5. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?
(a) Upon her death
(b) Upon his eighteenth birthday
(c) Until he met Fermina
(d) Until he started working on the riverboat

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Fermina when she returns from her trek?

2. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?

3. How old is Fermina Daza when Florentino sees her for the first time?

4. Which of the following is an antonym for the word ignominious as it is used to describe the manner of Dr. Urbino's death?

5. Which of the following is a synonym for paramour?

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