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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Florentino go to because Fermina always announces the winners?
(a) Theater performance
(b) Poetic festival
(c) Art awards
(d) Musical theater

2. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) Cholera
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Intestinal infection

3. How many long term liaisons does Florentino describe having?
(a) 2
(b) 52
(c) 222
(d) 622

4. How do you think Dr. Urbino felt about Paris?
(a) Loved it
(b) Liked it
(c) Did not like it
(d) Enjoyed it but did not care to return

5. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?
(a) He photographed him
(b) They were lovers
(c) They played chess
(d) He bought art from him

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?

2. In what way was Leona Cassiani important to Florentino?

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

4. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?

5. What is the name of the harbor town that is the setting for this novel?

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