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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. Where does Fermina Daza attend school?
(a) No school
(b) Public school
(c) Private school
(d) All girls school

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

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

4. How old is Dr. Urbino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 70
(b) 60
(c) 80
(d) 90

5. What is the name of the harbor town that is the setting for this novel?
(a) Nameless
(b) Paris
(c) Columbia
(d) Hildebranda

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?

2. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?

3. Which fleet does Florentino hope to gather treasure and galleons from?

4. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?

5. What event will Dr. Urbino be attending which he would like to take a siesta before he must get ready for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event causes Fermina to decide finally to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino?

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

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

4. What provides Florentino with a little hope before he resigns himself to failing at making Fermina his own?

5. Where does Florentino spend his time when Fermina is off on her journey?

6. What does Florentino document in twenty-five notebooks?

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

8. Whose conscience does the parrot seem to represent?

9. What causes Fermina to feel a growing rage every time she thinks of it?

10. How does Dr. Urbino die?

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