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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the rumors indicate that Fermina has fled when she leaves the city?
(a) Her cousin's house
(b) To another country
(c) To the countryside
(d) A hospital for the rich

2. What is Florentino's nickname for Fermina?
(a) Crowned Goddess
(b) Goddess
(c) Beautiful Goddess
(d) Crowned Glory

3. What can the aging bodies of Florentino and Fermina be seen as symbols of?
(a) Love aging
(b) Suicide
(c) A dying country
(d) Love divided

4. At what event do Fermina and Florentino next meet face to face?
(a) One-year anniversary Mass for Dr. Urbino's death
(b) In Fermina's home
(c) Two days after the anniversary Mass for Dr. Urbino's death
(d) Market Place

5. Which of the following is a synonym for rumination as it is used in chapter four?
(a) Mantra
(b) Letters
(c) Reflection
(d) Love letters

6. What does the term aplomb mean?
(a) Self-confident
(b) Unsure
(c) Styled
(d) Awkwardness

7. Which of the following events does NOT make Fermina more lost to Florentino than she had ever been according to Florentino?
(a) Rejecting him
(b) Pregnant
(c) Interested in him
(d) Married

8. From which medical condition did Florentino suffer in this chapter?
(a) Impotence
(b) Broken arm
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Cholera

9. Which of the following best describes how Fermina felt about married life and motherhood?
(a) Extreme satisfaction
(b) Anger
(c) Excitement
(d) No depth of satisfaction

10. What does Florentino call his clandestine liaisons with many different women?
(a) Companion loving
(b) Companion hunting
(c) Solitary loving
(d) Solitary hunting

11. How could Dr. Urbino diagnose what killed the many corpses they see dotting the countryside from the air?
(a) He can see the signs of tuberculosis
(b) He can see the ravages of cholera
(c) He can see the bullets flying and hitting men
(d) He can see a mortal wound in the back of each neck

12. The balloon trip to San Juan de la Cienega was the country's first attempt at what?
(a) Hot air balloon travel
(b) Blimp travel
(c) Airmail delivery
(d) Flight

13. How long were Fermina and Dr. Urbino away on their second honeymoon?
(a) 2 months
(b) 3 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 3 months

14. What did Florentino write on Olimpia Zuleta?
(a) Florentino was here
(b) All mine
(c) Mine
(d) This pussy is mine

15. For how long does Florentino suffer before he finds a letter from Fermina on his stoop?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 1 week
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 4 weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a plague that affected people in this time period in Columbia?

2. What tool used by the author would best describe his making Florentino unable to perform the first time they attempted to have sex?

3. How many people were on the boat at the end of the story?

4. How did Dr. Urbino and Fermina travel to deliver the letter from the Governor?

5. How does Florentino suffer physically after he is thrown out of Fermina's home?

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