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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Florentino describe brief flings?
(a) Not worthy of describing
(b) Exciting
(c) Memorable
(d) Outstanding

2. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?
(a) Upon his eighteenth birthday
(b) Until he met Fermina
(c) Upon her death
(d) Until he started working on the riverboat

3. How old is Florentino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 96
(b) 80
(c) 55
(d) 76

4. How many pages of love declarations has Florentino been writing to Fermina without her knowledge?
(a) 60
(b) 600
(c) 80
(d) 70

5. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?
(a) A letter
(b) A treasure
(c) A chessboard
(d) A pet

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an antonym for the word ignominious as it is used to describe the manner of Dr. Urbino's death?

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

4. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?

5. Under what circumstances does Dr. Urbino meet Fermina Daza?

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