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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florentino think has cleared his mind of Fermina Daza?
(a) Liaison with Widow Nazaret
(b) Age and wisdom
(c) 622 liaisons
(d) Lack of her being in the same city

2. When it is thought that Fermina has cholera, what does she indeed have?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) She is pregnant
(c) Cholera
(d) Intestinal infection

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

4. What did de Saint-Amour leave for Dr. Urbino?
(a) A letter
(b) A chessboard
(c) A treasure
(d) A pet

5. How did de Saint-Amour kill himself?
(a) Overdose of medication
(b) Gunshot
(c) Hanging
(d) Gold cyanide

Short Answer Questions

1. What business did Florentino's father help to found?

2. 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?

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

4. How do Florentino and Fermina correspond while she is on her trek?

5. Where does Fermina Daza attend school?

(see the answer key)

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