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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 Transito send Florentino when he learns of her engagement to Dr. Urbino?
(a) To fight in the civil war
(b) To a writing retreat
(c) To become the captain of his uncle's river boat
(d) On a river voyage to take up a post in the mountains

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event within the household prevents Dr. Urbino from getting his siesta?

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

3. How old is Florentino in chapter one of this novel?

4. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?

5. What job does Florentino use to support himself when he first sees Fermina Daza?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Dr. Urbino associate the scent from cyanide with?

6. What happens to Florentino for two weeks after he makes his second declaration of love to Fermina?

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

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

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

10. Who takes advantage of Florentino as they are looking for the treasure?

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