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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 is NOT an event that Fermina regularly complains about plaguing her in chapter four?
(a) Formality of the household
(b) Florentino's letters
(c) Boring routine
(d) Mother-in-law

2. How did Dr. Urbino and Fermina travel to deliver the letter from the Governor?
(a) Car
(b) Wagon
(c) Hot air balloon
(d) Mule

3. Where does Fermina spy Florentino sitting in chapter four?
(a) At the riverboat company
(b) In the marketplace
(c) On the bench where he sat when he courted her
(d) At the poetic festival

4. Which of the following does Florentino tell her to think of love as?
(a) Forever
(b) A beginning
(c) An end in itself
(d) The ultimate happiness

5. At what event do Fermina and Florentino next meet face to face?
(a) In Fermina's home
(b) Two days after the anniversary Mass for Dr. Urbino's death
(c) Market Place
(d) One-year anniversary Mass for Dr. Urbino's death

6. Which of the following is NOT a plague that affected people in this time period in Columbia?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Civil War
(c) AIDS
(d) Cholera

7. How long were Fermina and Dr. Urbino away on their second honeymoon?
(a) 2 months
(b) 2 years
(c) 3 months
(d) 3 years

8. Which of the following best describes how Fermina felt about married life and motherhood?
(a) No depth of satisfaction
(b) Anger
(c) Excitement
(d) Extreme satisfaction

9. What event does Florentino go to because Fermina always announces the winners?
(a) Theater performance
(b) Art awards
(c) Poetic festival
(d) Musical theater

10. From which medical condition did Florentino suffer in this chapter?
(a) Broken arm
(b) Impotence
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Cholera

11. How long has Florentino been in love with Fermina by the end of chapter five?
(a) 50 years
(b) 30 years
(c) 70 years
(d) 20 years

12. Why does Florentino lose this position?
(a) All of his writing sounds like a love letter
(b) He sleeps with his uncle's wife
(c) He has intestinal issues that make it difficult to work
(d) He never shows up to work

13. Which of the following characters committed suicide?
(a) Florentino
(b) America Vicuna
(c) Ofelia Urbino
(d) Fermina

14. What does Florentino call his clandestine liaisons with many different women?
(a) Solitary hunting
(b) Companion loving
(c) Solitary loving
(d) Companion hunting

15. How does Florentino suffer physically after he is thrown out of Fermina's home?
(a) Intestinal unpleasantness
(b) Cholera
(c) Broken ankle
(d) Broken spine

Short Answer Questions

1. Which event would Florentino and Dr. Urbino most likely have crossed paths?

2. How many children did Fermina have?

3. Which character said the following "Love is ridiculous at our age, but at theirs it is revolting"?

4. What other event earlier in the novel lead to a disagreement with Fermina and Dr. Urbino?

5. Which of the following characters was the captain of the boat on which Florentino and Fermina sailed?

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