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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition for clandestine as it is used in chapter four?
(a) Open
(b) Underground and unknown
(c) Needing to be concealed or secret
(d) Serreptitious

2. Where does Fermina Daza attend school?
(a) All girls school
(b) Private school
(c) No school
(d) Public school

3. Under what circumstances does Dr. Urbino meet Fermina Daza?
(a) Her father introduces them hoping they will marry
(b) He treats her for a broken ankle
(c) She calls him to treat her sick father
(d) He is called as she shows signs of cholera

4. Who assists Dr. Urbino in the courting process?
(a) Marco Aurelio Urbino
(b) Widow Nazaret
(c) Lorenzo Daza
(d) Florentino

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florentino tell his uncle is the only thing he cares about?

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

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

4. Which word best describes the narrator in this novel?

5. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?

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