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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?
(a) His writings and meditations
(b) His lovers
(c) Passionate letters to Fermina
(d) All of the letters Fermina has written to him over the years

4. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?
(a) Stealing and fleeing a life sentence in prison
(b) Cannibalism and stealing
(c) Cannibalism and fleeing a life sentence in prison
(d) Stealing and prostitution

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

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

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

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

9. 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?
(a) Protection
(b) Harbor
(c) Asylum
(d) Retreat

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

11. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?
(a) Dispassionate
(b) Unfair
(c) Biased
(d) Fiery

12. While in the marketplace, Fermina bargains over fabric for what?
(a) Clothing
(b) Marriage sheets
(c) Wedding dress
(d) Pillows

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

14. How old is Fermina Daza when Dr. Urbino meets her?
(a) 13
(b) 30
(c) 18
(d) 20

15. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?
(a) Poetic
(b) Romantic
(c) Short and simple
(d) Verbal

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances does Dr. Urbino meet Fermina Daza?

2. Where does Transito send Florentino when he learns of her engagement to Dr. Urbino?

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

4. What had Dr. Urbino's father introduced which helped to curb a large cholera epidemic?

5. How long is the mule trek on which Fermina goes with her father?

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