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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?
(a) Age and wisdom
(b) Liaison with Widow Nazaret
(c) 622 liaisons
(d) Lack of her being in the same city

2. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?
(a) Outside her school
(b) At her father's office
(c) A church Mass
(d) Christmas Eve Mass

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

4. Which of the following was Florentino's mother?
(a) Lorenzo
(b) Fermina
(c) Transito
(d) Don Pius

5. What business did Florentino's father help to found?
(a) Riverboat Company of Columbia
(b) River Company of Columbia
(c) River Company of the Caribbean
(d) Riverboat Incorporated

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

7. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?
(a) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his dog
(b) His lover and caretaker
(c) Dr. Juvenal Urbino
(d) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his cat

8. Which of the following is NOT a step that Dr. Juvenal Urbino takes to help stop the spread of cholera?
(a) Quarantining suspected cholera patients
(b) Separate market place from the dump
(c) Sewage treatment facilities
(d) Covered sewers

9. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?
(a) Questionable
(b) Ethical
(c) Criminal
(d) Without reproach

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

11. What are Dr. Urbino's last words in reference to?
(a) Seeing his dreams had come true
(b) Cursing the parrot
(c) His love for his wife
(d) Anger at his foolishness

12. Which of the following is an antonym for the word ignominious as it is used to describe the manner of Dr. Urbino's death?
(a) Honorable
(b) Reprehensible
(c) Embarrassing
(d) Humilating

13. How does Florentino describe brief flings?
(a) Outstanding
(b) Exciting
(c) Memorable
(d) Not worthy of describing

14. Which of the following provides the best synonym for haunting as it is used in this part of a sentence: "From Florentino's days of haunting the brothel"?
(a) Poignant
(b) Lingering
(c) Evocative
(d) Recurring

15. How old is Dr. Urbino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 90
(b) 80
(c) 60
(d) 70

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Dr. Urbino called to de Saint-Amour's home?

2. Where did Dr. Urbino study?

3. How old is Fermina Daza when Dr. Urbino meets her?

4. Which of the following words best describes how Fermina Daza acted during the funeral and wake for her husband?

5. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?

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