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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?
(a) 30 years
(b) 70 years
(c) 50 years
(d) 60 years

4. Which event in chapter five is used to demonstrate that Fermina and Dr. Urbino's serious troubles are distant and insignificant?
(a) Florentino's seduction of the underage relative
(b) The balloon ride to deliver the letter
(c) Florentino's declaration of love to Fermina
(d) The balloon ride after delivering the letter

5. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?
(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 5
(d) 15

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the bodies which Florentino sees floating in the river victims of?

2. How does Fermina treat Florentino when she comes face to face with him in the market place?

3. Why does Florentino lose this position?

4. How do you think Dr. Urbino felt about Paris?

5. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?

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