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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. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?
(a) Perfect lust and everlasting admiration
(b) Perfect love and everlasting fidelity
(c) Perfect admiration and everlasting lust
(d) Perfect fidelity and everlasting love

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

3. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?
(a) Falling from a ladder
(b) Civil war
(c) Suicide
(d) Cholera

4. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?
(a) Hanging
(b) Gunshot
(c) Overdose of medication
(d) Gold cyanide

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Florentino describe brief flings?

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

3. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?

4. What is the name of the narrator?

5. Which of the following is a definition for inamorata?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were two steps Dr. Juvenal Urbino had the city do to curb the cholera epidemic?

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

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

5. What does Florentino's uncle claim there must be in order for there to be love?

6. When was the time that Fermina and Dr. Urbino loved each other best?

7. Who does Florentino like to imagine has stolen his virginity?

8. Why did the disabled man take his own life?

9. Why does America Vicuna tell Florentino he won't marry?

10. When they return from the second honeymoon what is different for Fermina?

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