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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Florentino continue to write to Fermina?
(a) One month
(b) One year
(c) Three months
(d) Three years

2. Which description best fits Fermina's view of love?
(a) Pragmatic
(b) Impractical
(c) Idealistic
(d) Foolish

3. Which event in chapter five is used to demonstrate that Fermina and Dr. Urbino's serious troubles are distant and insignificant?
(a) Florentino's seduction of the underage relative
(b) The balloon ride after delivering the letter
(c) Florentino's declaration of love to Fermina
(d) The balloon ride to deliver the letter

4. What tool used by the author would best describe his making Florentino unable to perform the first time they attempted to have sex?
(a) Metaphorical language
(b) Similies
(c) Irony
(d) Personification

5. In what way was Leona Cassiani important to Florentino?
(a) Writer
(b) Confidante
(c) Employer
(d) Lover

6. What are missives?
(a) Diseases
(b) Mantras
(c) Letters
(d) Missiles

7. What does Florentino tell his mistress he is going to do?
(a) Leave her
(b) Die from cholera
(c) Choose a new mistress
(d) Marry

8. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?
(a) This pussy is mine
(b) Mine
(c) All mine
(d) Florentino was here

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

10. Which of the following is true about Florentino?
(a) He has given up trying to become a writing
(b) Believes he is upholding his vows to Fermina
(c) He is in love with Olimpia Zuleta
(d) He remains a trash collector

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

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

13. What happened to the riverbanks they saw as they sailed down the river?
(a) Flooding
(b) Deforestation
(c) Littered with bodies
(d) Drought

14. What does Florentino tell his uncle is the only thing he cares about?
(a) Work
(b) Writing
(c) Love
(d) Fermina

15. What is Florentino's first position at the riverboat company?
(a) Ownder of the company
(b) Captain of the river boat
(c) Trash collector
(d) Writing business letters for his uncle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florentino pledge to Fermina?

2. How long were Fermina and Dr. Urbino away on their second honeymoon?

3. How does Fermina feel as she thinks about Florentino's announcement at the vigil for Dr. Urbino?

4. How many children did Fermina have?

5. Which of the following is the best definition for clandestine as it is used in chapter four?

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