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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 Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?
(a) She will take over his business
(b) She will support him
(c) She will become a woman
(d) She will forget about Florentino

2. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?
(a) A church Mass
(b) At her father's office
(c) Outside her school
(d) Christmas Eve Mass

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

4. Which of the following is a definition for inamorata?
(a) Man whom somebody loves
(b) Woman who loves a man
(c) Woman whom somebody loves
(d) Man who loves a woman

5. Under what circumstances does Dr. Urbino meet Fermina Daza?
(a) She calls him to treat her sick father
(b) He is called as she shows signs of cholera
(c) Her father introduces them hoping they will marry
(d) He treats her for a broken ankle

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Dr. Urbino's last words in reference to?

2. Why did Dr. Urbino's death cause much grief and an official time of mourning?

3. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?

4. How old is Fermina Daza when Florentino sees her for the first time?

5. What was the fete Dr. Urbino and Fermina attended devastated by?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the cause of death for the many bodies Dr. Urbino and Fermina saw on their hot air balloon trip?

3. What business did Florentino Ariza's mother run?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When was the time that Fermina and Dr. Urbino loved each other best?

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