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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the mule trek on which Fermina goes with her father?
(a) 18 Weeks
(b) 18 Months
(c) 18 Days
(d) 18 Years

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

3. Who assists Dr. Urbino in the courting process?
(a) Lorenzo Daza
(b) Widow Nazaret
(c) Marco Aurelio Urbino
(d) Florentino

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

5. When did Florentino stop living with his mother?
(a) Upon his eighteenth birthday
(b) Until he started working on the riverboat
(c) Upon her death
(d) Until he met Fermina

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

7. Where did Dr. Urbino study?
(a) Madrid
(b) America
(c) Paris
(d) Bogota

8. How old is Fermina Daza when Dr. Urbino meets her?
(a) 30
(b) 20
(c) 13
(d) 18

9. Who helps to aid the communication between Fermina and Florentino?
(a) Florentino's uncle
(b) Florentino's mother
(c) Fermina's sister
(d) Fermina's aunt

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

11. Which word best describes the recounting of the narrator in this novel?
(a) Dispassionate
(b) Unfair
(c) Biased
(d) Fiery

12. How old is Fermina when she returns from her trek?
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 19
(d) 17

13. How many years pass between the rejection at the market place and Florentino's repeated vows upon the death of her husband?
(a) 51
(b) 49
(c) 50
(d) 55

14. Which of the following is the best synonym for cosmopolitan as it is used to describe Paris?
(a) International
(b) Sophisticated
(c) Mixed
(d) Insular

15. Who besides telegraph operators helps Fermina communicate with Florentino?
(a) Florentino's cousin
(b) Fermina's uncle
(c) Fermina's cousin
(d) Florentino's uncle

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fermina treat Florentino when she comes face to face with him in the market place?

2. Which of the following is not a type of communication Florentino and Fermina shared during their two year correspondence?

3. What did de Saint-Amour vow to do when he reached the age of sixty?

4. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?

5. Which of the following two "crimes" did de Saint-Amour confess to in his final letter?

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