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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters was the father to the man who fell off of the ladder?
(a) Dr. Fermina Daza
(b) Dr. Florentino Ariza
(c) Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino
(d) Dr. Juvenal Urbino

2. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?
(a) Perfect admiration and everlasting lust
(b) Perfect love and everlasting fidelity
(c) Perfect fidelity and everlasting love
(d) Perfect lust and everlasting admiration

3. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?
(a) Overdose of medication
(b) Hanging
(c) Gold cyanide
(d) Gunshot

4. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?
(a) International
(b) Insular
(c) Sophisticated
(d) Mixed

5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term paradoxically as used to describe the narrator's telling of the trivial matters of domestic life that nearly caused the strong bond between husband and wife to disintegrate?
(a) Surprising
(b) Person of opposites
(c) Self-contradictory statement
(d) Something absurd or contradictory

6. What event within the household prevents Dr. Urbino from getting his siesta?
(a) Visit from his children
(b) Argument with his wife
(c) Escaped family parrot
(d) Death of his friend

7. What was the fete Dr. Urbino and Fermina attended devastated by?
(a) Torrential rain
(b) Drought
(c) Winds
(d) Hurricane

8. What event will Dr. Urbino be attending which he would like to take a siesta before he must get ready for?
(a) Silver anniversary gala for a former student
(b) Gold Mass for a friend
(c) Gold anniversary gala for a former student
(d) Silver Mass for a friend

9. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?
(a) 30 years
(b) 60 years
(c) 70 years
(d) 50 years

10. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?
(a) 30
(b) 20
(c) 15
(d) 5

11. What does Fermina return to Florentino with the note saying she will not marry him?
(a) All of his letters
(b) All of his gifts
(c) Everything he had sent her
(d) Dried flowers

12. Where does the sewage from the city drain?
(a) Into the city streets
(b) Into the water supply
(c) Into the river
(d) Into the marketplace

13. How old is Florentino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 96
(b) 80
(c) 76
(d) 55

14. Which of the following is a definition for inamorata?
(a) Woman who loves a man
(b) Man who loves a woman
(c) Man whom somebody loves
(d) Woman whom somebody loves

15. In what way do the hymns which Florentino is playing during Mass change during his period of illness?
(a) They begin to include many errors
(b) They begin to sound more like love waltzes
(c) He plays them at a much more rapid pace
(d) He plays them out of tune

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fermina's father take her on a mule trek?

2. Which of the following is a synonym for paramour?

3. How many pages of love declarations has Florentino been writing to Fermina without her knowledge?

4. 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?

5. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?

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