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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?
(a) Letters
(b) Telephone
(c) Texting
(d) Telegraph

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

3. What happens to Florentino as he waits for a response to his letter from Fermina?
(a) None, he stays quite healthy
(b) He has just diarrhea
(c) He has diarrhea, green vomit and fainting spells
(d) He has green vomit and fainting spells

4. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?
(a) They played chess
(b) They were lovers
(c) He bought art from him
(d) He photographed him

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

6. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?
(a) To please his lover
(b) To avoid suffering the ravages of old age
(c) To become a happier person
(d) Because he was disabled

7. What is the name of the narrator?
(a) Florentino
(b) Fermina
(c) The narrator is unnamed
(d) Dr. Urbino

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

9. How many long term liaisons does Florentino describe having?
(a) 52
(b) 622
(c) 2
(d) 222

10. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?
(a) Pigeons
(b) Eagles
(c) Ravens
(d) Vultures

11. How many pages of love declarations has Florentino been writing to Fermina without her knowledge?
(a) 70
(b) 80
(c) 600
(d) 60

12. Why had Florentino maintained his virginity even through his days at the brothel?
(a) He was afraid of women
(b) His illness prevented him from taking a mate
(c) He was impotent
(d) He was saving himself for Fermina

13. How old is Fermina Daza when Florentino sees her for the first time?
(a) 13
(b) 15
(c) 12
(d) 14

14. Why did his lover help him?
(a) Because he begged her
(b) Because she loved him
(c) Because he forced her
(d) Because she wanted him dead

15. Where does Transito send Florentino when he learns of her engagement to Dr. Urbino?
(a) On a river voyage to take up a post in the mountains
(b) To a writing retreat
(c) To become the captain of his uncle's river boat
(d) To fight in the civil war

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the fete Dr. Urbino and Fermina attended devastated by?

3. In what way do the hymns which Florentino is playing during Mass change during his period of illness?

4. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?

5. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?

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