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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the harbor town that is the setting for this novel?
(a) Columbia
(b) Nameless
(c) Hildebranda
(d) Paris

2. Who finally gives in and ends the estrangement of Fermina living with her cousin?
(a) Florentino
(b) Dr. Urbino
(c) Hildebranda Sanchez
(d) Fermina

3. How many people were on the boat at the end of the story?
(a) 7
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 8

4. How long does Florentino continue to write to Fermina?
(a) One year
(b) Three years
(c) Three months
(d) One month

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?

2. Which of the following descriptions best describes how Fermina's daughter feels about her relationship with Florentino?

3. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?

4. Which event in chapter five is used to demonstrate that Fermina and Dr. Urbino's serious troubles are distant and insignificant?

5. Which of the following is the best definition of a refuge as it is used to describe Widow Nazaret coming to live with Florentino and his mother?

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