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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 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?
(a) Self-contradictory statement
(b) Person of opposites
(c) Surprising
(d) Something absurd or contradictory

2. Why did de Saint-Amour make this vow?
(a) Because he was disabled
(b) To please his lover
(c) To become a happier person
(d) To avoid suffering the ravages of old age

3. What "punishment" was inflicted upon Dr. Urbino during the argument over the soap in the bathroom?
(a) Fermina left the house
(b) Had to move out of the bedroom
(c) Fermina moved out of the bedroom
(d) Had to move out of the house

4. What is the name of the narrator?
(a) The narrator is unnamed
(b) Dr. Urbino
(c) Fermina
(d) Florentino

5. Which of the following words best describes how Fermina Daza acted during the funeral and wake for her husband?
(a) Grief-stricken
(b) Emotional
(c) Jubilant
(d) Stoic

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Urbino study?

2. What are the bodies which Florentino sees floating in the river victims of?

3. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?

4. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?

5. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Fermina begin to wonder when she sees Florentino sitting on the bench where he had once courted her?

3. What promise does Fermina insist be part of the bargain as she agrees to marry Florentino?

4. What does it mean when it is said that the man had questionable business dealings?

5. How does the author describe the feelings of Dr. Urbino's presence that Fermina has?

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

7. How do many of the women end up after they have had an affair with Florentino?

8. What does Florentino pledge to Fermina?

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

10. How does Dr. Urbino die?

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