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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition for clandestine as it is used in chapter four?
(a) Serreptitious
(b) Underground and unknown
(c) Needing to be concealed or secret
(d) Open

2. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?
(a) Verbal
(b) Romantic
(c) Poetic
(d) Short and simple

3. How did Juvenal Urbino know Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?
(a) He bought art from him
(b) They were lovers
(c) He photographed him
(d) They played chess

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

5. Which of the following characters was the father to the man who fell off of the ladder?
(a) Dr. Florentino Ariza
(b) Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino
(c) Dr. Fermina Daza
(d) Dr. Juvenal Urbino

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Florentino's first position at the riverboat company?

2. Which of the following characters was murdered?

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

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

5. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?

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