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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?
(a) Riverboat trash collector
(b) Post office master general
(c) Post office delivery
(d) Riverboat driver

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

3. Who besides telegraph operators helps Fermina communicate with Florentino?
(a) Fermina's cousin
(b) Florentino's uncle
(c) Florentino's cousin
(d) Fermina's uncle

4. What is Juvenal Urbino's profession?
(a) Artist
(b) Doctor
(c) Government official
(d) Photographer

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

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

7. 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) Humilating
(c) Embarrassing
(d) Reprehensible

8. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?
(a) Intestinal infection
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) She is pregnant
(d) Cholera

9. Which of the following is a synonym for paramour?
(a) Friend
(b) Wife
(c) Lover
(d) Husband

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

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

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

13. 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) Evocative
(c) Lingering
(d) Recurring

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

15. 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) Person of opposites
(b) Surprising
(c) Something absurd or contradictory
(d) Self-contradictory statement

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Dr. Urbino in chapter one of this novel?

2. What event within the household prevents Dr. Urbino from getting his siesta?

3. What is Fermina's reply when Florentino finally proposes marriage?

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

5. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?

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