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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who moves in with Florentino and his mother when he returns home from his post in the mountains?
(a) His father
(b) Ferina Daza
(c) A widow
(d) A soldier of the civil war

2. What does Florentino place in the river to float away like the corpses?
(a) All of the letters Fermina has written to him over the years
(b) Passionate letters to Fermina
(c) His writings and meditations
(d) His lovers

3. Who finally gives in and ends the estrangement of Fermina living with her cousin?
(a) Fermina
(b) Florentino
(c) Hildebranda Sanchez
(d) Dr. Urbino

4. Where does the sewage from the city drain?
(a) Into the marketplace
(b) Into the city streets
(c) Into the river
(d) Into the water supply

5. Where did Dr. Urbino study?
(a) Paris
(b) Bogota
(c) America
(d) Madrid

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?

3. Which of the following characters was obsessed with cholera?

4. How many long term liaisons does Florentino describe having?

5. Which of the following is NOT a step that Dr. Juvenal Urbino takes to help stop the spread of cholera?

(see the answer key)

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