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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. Which of the following characters was the father to the man who fell off of the ladder?
(a) Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino
(b) Dr. Florentino Ariza
(c) Dr. Fermina Daza
(d) Dr. Juvenal Urbino

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

3. What are the bodies which Florentino sees floating in the river victims of?
(a) Another cause beside cholera or the civil war
(b) Civil war only
(c) Cholera only
(d) Cholera and the civil war

4. How do you think Dr. Urbino felt about Paris?
(a) Loved it
(b) Did not like it
(c) Enjoyed it but did not care to return
(d) Liked it

5. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?
(a) International
(b) Mixed
(c) Sophisticated
(d) Insular

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?

2. Where does the sewage from the city drain?

3. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?

4. What did de Saint-Amour vow to do when he reached the age of sixty?

5. Where does Fermina Daza attend school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Dr. Urbino decide to marry Fermina?

3. What kinds of things does the author use to describe the depressing decline of the city where Dr. Urbino returns to after leaving Paris?

4. Where does Florentino see dead bodies?

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

6. What does Florentino use as weapons in the battle to win over Fermina?

7. What is the overriding theme of this novel?

8. Name three ways that Florentino cultivates the fourteen-year-old school girl he takes as his lover.

9. What books does Florentino hope to have published?

10. What surprises Florentino when he sees Fermina after two years of living with her cousin?

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