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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?
(a) Letters
(b) Telegraph
(c) Telephone
(d) Texting

2. How old is Dr. Urbino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 60
(b) 90
(c) 70
(d) 80

3. What expansion has the fire department made as a direct result of his own civic contributions?
(a) A willingness to do anything for him personally
(b) New fire truck
(c) New ladder which will reach the parrot
(d) Rescues and emergency response

4. Which word best describes the narrator in this novel?
(a) Omniscient
(b) Omnipotent
(c) Omnipresent
(d) Omnithought

5. Why did his lover help him?
(a) Because he forced her
(b) Because she loved him
(c) Because he begged her
(d) Because she wanted him dead

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way do the hymns which Florentino is playing during Mass change during his period of illness?

2. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?

3. What type of communication do Florentino and Fermina have at their first face to face meeting?

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

5. Who besides telegraph operators helps Fermina communicate with Florentino?

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