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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?
(a) Civil war
(b) Falling from a ladder
(c) Cholera
(d) Suicide

2. What business did Florentino's father help to found?
(a) River Company of Columbia
(b) Riverboat Company of Columbia
(c) River Company of the Caribbean
(d) Riverboat Incorporated

3. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?
(a) Because he was disabled
(b) To please his lover
(c) To become a happier person
(d) To avoid suffering the ravages of old age

4. Who moves in with Florentino and his mother when he returns home from his post in the mountains?
(a) His father
(b) A widow
(c) Ferina Daza
(d) A soldier of the civil war

5. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?
(a) Perfect lust and everlasting admiration
(b) Perfect fidelity and everlasting love
(c) Perfect admiration and everlasting lust
(d) Perfect love and everlasting fidelity

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was Florentino's mother?

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

4. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?

5. Who assists Dr. Urbino in the courting process?

(see the answer key)

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