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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?

2. Which of the following is a synonym for paramour?

3. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author mean with the phrase "abyss of disenchantment"?

3. What had the woman who Florentino met on the trolley done not long before he met her?

4. When they return from the second honeymoon what is different for Fermina?

5. Why did Fermina decide to go and live with her cousin?

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

7. Whose conscience does the parrot seem to represent?

8. What does Florentino pledge to Fermina?

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

10. How does Florentino do when he enters the poetry contests?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the purpose of the parrot in this story.

Essay Topic 2

In this novel, characters commit suicide or think about committing suicide. Describe events and ideas that occur throughout the novel which may have led these characters to commit suicide. Be specific and detailed in your writing.

Essay Topic 3

Many of the women with whom Florentino had an affair were worse off after they had a liaison with him. Explain why the author chose to have the women experience events which were often worse after being with Florentino. Be sure to support your answer.

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