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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes how Fermina Daza acted during the funeral and wake for her husband?
(a) Grief-stricken
(b) Emotional
(c) Jubilant
(d) Stoic

2. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?
(a) Cannibalism and fleeing a life sentence in prison
(b) Stealing and prostitution
(c) Cannibalism and stealing
(d) Stealing and fleeing a life sentence in prison

3. What does the one letter which Florentino delivers to Fermina pledge?
(a) Perfect love and everlasting fidelity
(b) Perfect fidelity and everlasting love
(c) Perfect lust and everlasting admiration
(d) Perfect admiration and everlasting lust

4. Why had Florentino maintained his virginity even through his days at the brothel?
(a) His illness prevented him from taking a mate
(b) He was impotent
(c) He was afraid of women
(d) He was saving himself for Fermina

5. What does Lorenzo hope will happen on the mule trek?
(a) She will become a woman
(b) She will take over his business
(c) She will forget about Florentino
(d) She will support him

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Florentino describe brief flings?

2. How old is Fermina Daza when Florentino sees her for the first time?

3. How many pages of love declarations has Florentino been writing to Fermina without her knowledge?

4. Who moves in with Florentino and his mother when he returns home from his post in the mountains?

5. Why does Dr. Urbino feel offended by what de Saint-Amour leaves for him?

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