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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Which word best describes the narrator in this novel?
(a) Omnipotent
(b) Omniscient
(c) Omnithought
(d) Omnipresent

3. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?
(a) Rejection
(b) Physical illness
(c) Lovesickness
(d) Laziness

4. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?
(a) Fermina's cousin
(b) Fermina's friend
(c) Florentino's lover
(d) Florentino's cousin

5. Which of the following is NOT a plague that affected people in this time period in Columbia?
(a) AIDS
(b) Civil War
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Cholera

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Dr. Urbino diagnose what killed the many corpses they see dotting the countryside from the air?

2. Where did Florentino vow he will always live?

3. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?

4. The balloon trip to San Juan de la Cienega was the country's first attempt at what?

5. Where did Florentino write on the wife who was murdered by her husband?

(see the answer key)

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