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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?
(a) A brothel
(b) His own home
(c) His mother's house
(d) His uncle's business

2. How many children did Florentino have?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 0

3. Which of the following is NOT a step that Dr. Juvenal Urbino takes to help stop the spread of cholera?
(a) Separate market place from the dump
(b) Covered sewers
(c) Sewage treatment facilities
(d) Quarantining suspected cholera patients

4. What does Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?
(a) She will take over his business
(b) She will become a woman
(c) She will support him
(d) She will forget about Florentino

5. Why does Fermina's father take her on a mule trek?
(a) He wants to give her one last adventure before she marries
(b) He wants to spend time with his daughter before she is married
(c) He does not approve of the marriage
(d) He wants to get to know Florentino

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?

2. What is Juvenal Urbino's profession?

3. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?

4. 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?

5. Why did Dr. Urbino's death cause much grief and an official time of mourning?

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