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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 of a refuge as it is used to describe Widow Nazaret coming to live with Florentino and his mother?
(a) Retreat
(b) Protection
(c) Harbor
(d) Asylum

2. Who besides telegraph operators helps Fermina communicate with Florentino?
(a) Fermina's cousin
(b) Florentino's cousin
(c) Fermina's uncle
(d) Florentino's uncle

3. Who else died in the same manner as de Saint-Amour?
(a) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his cat
(b) Mister Woodrow Wilson, his dog
(c) His lover and caretaker
(d) Dr. Juvenal Urbino

4. How does Florentino describe brief flings?
(a) Outstanding
(b) Memorable
(c) Exciting
(d) Not worthy of describing

5. What happens to Florentino as he waits for a response to his letter from Fermina?
(a) He has green vomit and fainting spells
(b) He has just diarrhea
(c) He has diarrhea, green vomit and fainting spells
(d) None, he stays quite healthy

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's profession?

2. 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"?

3. How long is the mule trek on which Fermina goes with her father?

4. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who has been in love with Fermina for more than half of a century?

2. What does Florentino fear will put an end to his plans to win over Fermina?

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

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

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

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

7. Who conspired with Fermina's father to compel Fermina to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino?

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

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

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

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