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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Person of opposites
(d) Something absurd or contradictory

2. Why had the school expelled Fermina Daza?
(a) Having sex with Florentino
(b) Agreeing to marry before she is of age
(c) Writing love notes to Florentino
(d) Not completing her work

3. Which of the following is a synonym for rumination as it is used in chapter four?
(a) Love letters
(b) Reflection
(c) Mantra
(d) Letters

4. What does Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?
(a) She will forget about Florentino
(b) She will become a woman
(c) She will support him
(d) She will take over his business

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?

2. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?

3. Where did Dr. Urbino study?

4. What does Florentino pledge to Fermina?

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

(see the answer key)

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