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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?
(a) Short and simple
(b) Verbal
(c) Poetic
(d) Romantic

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

4. Which of the following was Florentino's mother?
(a) Lorenzo
(b) Transito
(c) Don Pius
(d) Fermina

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?

2. What "punishment" was inflicted upon Dr. Urbino during the argument over the soap in the bathroom?

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

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

5. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?

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