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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 Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?
(a) Liaison with Widow Nazaret
(b) Lack of her being in the same city
(c) 622 liaisons
(d) Age and wisdom

2. Why does Fermina's father take her on a mule trek?
(a) He wants to spend time with his daughter before she is married
(b) He does not approve of the marriage
(c) He wants to give her one last adventure before she marries
(d) He wants to get to know Florentino

3. In what way do the hymns which Florentino is playing during Mass change during his period of illness?
(a) They begin to include many errors
(b) He plays them out of tune
(c) He plays them at a much more rapid pace
(d) They begin to sound more like love waltzes

4. Why was Dr. Urbino called to de Saint-Amour's home?
(a) To treat him for an illness
(b) To play chess
(c) To treat his wife
(d) To certify his death

5. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) Intestinal infection
(c) Cholera
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following provides the best synonym for haunting as it is used in this part of a sentence: "From Florentino's days of haunting the brothel"?

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

3. What is Fermina's reply when Florentino finally proposes marriage?

4. 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?

5. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what were all of Florentino's brothers named?

2. Describe Florentino's only lover at the time of Dr. Urbino's death.

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

4. Whose conscience does the parrot seem to represent?

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

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

7. What was the argument that caused Dr. Urbino and his wife to almost end their marriage after thirty years?

8. What books does Florentino hope to have published?

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

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

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