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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fermina return to Florentino with the note saying she will not marry him?
(a) All of his letters
(b) Dried flowers
(c) All of his gifts
(d) Everything he had sent her

2. 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

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

4. How does Dr. Urbino feel when he awakes from his sleep?
(a) Upset that his parrot has not been found
(b) Rejuvenated and happy
(c) Convinced his days are at an end
(d) Angry at his former friend and chessmate

5. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?
(a) 51
(b) 55
(c) 50
(d) 49

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?

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

3. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?

4. What is Juvenal Urbino's profession?

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

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