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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Something absurd or contradictory
(b) Person of opposites
(c) Surprising
(d) Self-contradictory statement

3. How many years were Fermina and Dr. Urbino married when the soap in the bathroom incident occurred?
(a) 15
(b) 30
(c) 5
(d) 20

4. Which of the following characters was obsessed with cholera?
(a) Fermina
(b) Florentino
(c) Transito Ariza
(d) Dr. Urbino

5. Where does Florentino have a private room where he spends his time while waiting for Fermina to return?
(a) His uncle's business
(b) His mother's house
(c) A brothel
(d) His own home

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

7. How old is Florentino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 55
(b) 96
(c) 80
(d) 76

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

9. How old is Dr. Urbino in chapter one of this novel?
(a) 70
(b) 80
(c) 60
(d) 90

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

11. Why was Dr. Urbino called to de Saint-Amour's home?
(a) To play chess
(b) To treat his wife
(c) To certify his death
(d) To treat him for an illness

12. Which description below best fits Lorenzo Daza as a business man?
(a) Questionable
(b) Without reproach
(c) Ethical
(d) Criminal

13. What did de Saint-Amour vow to do when he reached the age of sixty?
(a) Marry a new woman
(b) Take his own life
(c) Divorce his wife
(d) Take a lover

14. What is the name of the narrator?
(a) The narrator is unnamed
(b) Florentino
(c) Dr. Urbino
(d) Fermina

15. Why did Dr. Urbino's death cause much grief and an official time of mourning?
(a) Because of who his wife was
(b) Because of the way he died
(c) Because of his standing in the community
(d) Because of the events of his life

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino die?

2. How many years earlier do the events in this chapter take place?

3. Where does the sewage from the city drain?

4. What "punishment" was inflicted upon Dr. Urbino during the argument over the soap in the bathroom?

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

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