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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the bodies which Florentino sees floating in the river victims of?
(a) Cholera only
(b) Civil war only
(c) Cholera and the civil war
(d) Another cause beside cholera or the civil war

2. When Florentino sees Fermina for the first time after her return, he is surprised to see that she is not ____________________.
(a) Disfigured
(b) Thin
(c) Aging
(d) Healthy

3. How long were Fermina and Dr. Urbino away on their second honeymoon?
(a) 3 months
(b) 2 months
(c) 2 years
(d) 3 years

4. Which character has the more optimistic view of aging?
(a) Marquez
(b) De Saint-Amour
(c) Florentino
(d) Fermina Daza

5. Which of the following characters was murdered?
(a) Olimpia Zuleta
(b) Dr. Urbino
(c) America Vicuna
(d) Leona Cassiani

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?

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

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

4. Which of the following events does NOT make Fermina more lost to Florentino than she had ever been according to Florentino?

5. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?

(see the answer key)

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