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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. How does Florentino describe brief flings?

2. Where does the sewage from the city drain?

3. Why do Florentino's work and violin play suffer?

4. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?

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 is Leona Cassiani to Florentino?

2. What does Fermina do with all of Dr. Urbino's suits?

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

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

5. When is the next time that Florentino and Fermina meet face to face?

6. What does Florentino's uncle claim there must be in order for there to be love?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

This novel did not occur in chronological order. Explain how effective you felt the author's use of time shifting between the past and present were as a writing technique. Use specific examples to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Describe in detail, using examples from the novel, how the author uses the technique of foreshadowing throughout this novel.

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