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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical injury caused Dr. Urbino's death?
(a) Heart attack
(b) Impalement
(c) Broken spine
(d) Broken neck

2. How does Fermina treat Florentino when she comes face to face with him in the market place?
(a) Cold language
(b) Warm thoughts
(c) Cold dismissal
(d) Hugs and relief

3. Which of the following is the best definition for the term paradoxically as used to describe the narrator's telling of the trivial matters of domestic life that nearly caused the strong bond between husband and wife to disintegrate?
(a) Person of opposites
(b) Self-contradictory statement
(c) Something absurd or contradictory
(d) Surprising

4. Which of the following was Florentino's mother?
(a) Transito
(b) Lorenzo
(c) Fermina
(d) Don Pius

5. How many children did Florentino have?
(a) 0
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Florentino as he waits for a response to his letter from Fermina?

2. What does Dr. Urbino see perched on rooftops throughout the city?

3. Where is the first place that Fermina Daza and Florentino come face to face?

4. How does Florentino describe brief flings?

5. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?

(see the answer key)

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