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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of communication do Florentino and Fermina have at their first face to face meeting?
(a) None
(b) Verbal only
(c) Physical only
(d) Verbal and physical

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

4. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?
(a) Ethical
(b) Criminal
(c) Without reproach
(d) Questionable

5. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?
(a) Until he started working on the riverboat
(b) Until he met Fermina
(c) Upon her death
(d) Upon his eighteenth birthday

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?

2. While in the marketplace, Fermina bargains over fabric for what?

3. What does Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?

4. 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?

5. Who assists Dr. Urbino in the courting process?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who introduced public health measures to help curb the cholera epidemic?

2. What is found in the letter that Florentino finds on his stoop?

3. How does Florentino do when he enters the poetry contests?

4. When Fermina was seventeen, what did she become in charge of?

5. Which sport is loved by some of the characters in this chapter?

6. Where does Florentino see dead bodies?

7. What was the cause of death for the many bodies Dr. Urbino and Fermina saw on their hot air balloon trip?

8. Why was Dr. Urbino de Calle called to the home of his former chess partner?

9. What is a siesta?

10. What had the woman who Florentino met on the trolley done not long before he met her?

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