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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is meant by the term cultivates as used in chapter five?
(a) To improve or develop something
(b) To work land or prepare soil for growing crops
(c) To develop acquaintance with somebody
(d) To break up soil with a toll or machine

2. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?
(a) Cholera
(b) Suicide
(c) Civil war
(d) Falling from a ladder

3. Which of the following events does NOT make Fermina more lost to Florentino than she had ever been according to Florentino?
(a) Rejecting him
(b) Pregnant
(c) Interested in him
(d) Married

4. How did Dr. Urbino and Fermina travel to deliver the letter from the Governor?
(a) Mule
(b) Wagon
(c) Hot air balloon
(d) Car

5. Why does Dr. Urbino feel offended by what de Saint-Amour leaves for him?
(a) He is upset that he could not stop his death
(b) He is upset that he knew someone with a shady past
(c) He is offended by the secrets kept
(d) He is upset that he killed himself

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Florentino maintained his virginity even through his days at the brothel?

2. How many lovers is Florentino left with at the time Dr. Urbino dies?

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

4. Which of the following is an antonym for the word ignominious as it is used to describe the manner of Dr. Urbino's death?

5. Who is Hildebranda Sanchez?

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