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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?
(a) Unfair
(b) Dispassionate
(c) Fiery
(d) Biased

2. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?
(a) Post office master general
(b) Riverboat trash collector
(c) Post office delivery
(d) Riverboat driver

3. What happens to Florentino as he waits for a response to his letter from Fermina?
(a) He has just diarrhea
(b) He has green vomit and fainting spells
(c) None, he stays quite healthy
(d) He has diarrhea, green vomit and fainting spells

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

5. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?
(a) Dr. Juvenal Urbino
(b) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his cat
(c) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his dog
(d) His lover and caretaker

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Dr. Urbino feel when he awakes from his sleep?

3. What type of communication do Florentino and Fermina have at their first face to face meeting?

4. What was the fete Dr. Urbino and Fermina attended devastated by?

5. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?

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