1.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain”?
Correct Answer
E. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
2.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “I will never be old”?
Correct Answer
A. Jeremiah de Saint-Amour
3.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Nothing that does not speak will come into this house”?
Correct Answer
C. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
4.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “To hell with the Archbishop!”?
Correct Answer
C. Fermina Daza
5.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Let me stay here. There was soap”?
Correct Answer
D. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
6.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “He did the right thing. If he had told the truth, not you or that poor woman or anybody in this town would have loved him as much as they did”?
Correct Answer
B. Fermina Daza
7.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “It is a pity to still find a suicide that is not for love”?
Correct Answer
E. Dr. Olivella
8.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Only God knows how much I loved you”?
Correct Answer
E. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
9.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Get out of here. And don’t show your face again for the years of life that are left to you. And hope there are very few of them”?
Correct Answer
C. Fermina Daza
10.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die”?
Correct Answer
C. Fermina Daza
11.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
12.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Don’t force me to shoot you”?
Correct Answer
A. Lorenzo Daza
13.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Do you like music?”?
Correct Answer
C. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
14.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Poor man”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
15.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “He is ugly and sad, but he is all love”?
Correct Answer
C. Hildebranda Sánchez
16.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “We are ruined. Total ruin, so now you know”?
Correct Answer
D. Lorenzo Daza
17.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “If you cross that street, when you get back here you will find me dead”?
Correct Answer
D. Dr. Juvenal Urbino
18.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “You have to know languages when you go to sell something. But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
19.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “I’m a poor man with money”?
Correct Answer
C. Don Leo XII Loayza
20.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Love is the only thing that interests me”?
Correct Answer
A. Florentino Ariza
21.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “No, I would feel as if I were going to bed with the son I never had”?
Correct Answer
A. Leona Cassiani
22.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “A decent woman cannot have that kind of dream”?
Correct Answer
B. Dona Blanca
23.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
24.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “I thought this not permitted by your ethics”?
Correct Answer
C. Barbara Lynch
25.
After Dr. Juvenal Urbino says, “I think I am going to die,” she says, “That would be best. Then we could both have some peace”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
26.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “What would you do if someone proposed marriage to you, just as you are, a widow of your age?”?
Correct Answer
B. Florentino Ariza
27.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “That’s a lie. Old men don’t marry”?
Correct Answer
E. América Vicuña
28.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “In our day it was camellias, not roses”?
Correct Answer
B. Florentino Ariza
29.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says,
“Without realizing it, [Florentino] was beginning to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them”?
Correct Answer
E. The omniscient narrator
30.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Love is ridiculous at our age, but at theirs it is revolting”?
Correct Answer
B. Ofelia Urbino
31.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “The only thing that hurts me is that I do not have the strength to give you the beating you deserve for being insolent and evil-minded, but you will leave this house right now, and I swear to you on my mother’s grave that you will not set foot in it again as long as I live”?
Correct Answer
E. Fermina Daza
32.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “I pray to God that the gringo will board my ship so that I can leave him behind all over again”?
Correct Answer
D. Captain Diego Samaritano
33.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death”?
Correct Answer
E. The omniscient narrator
34.
Which character from Love in the Time of Cholera says, “Let us keep going, going, going, back to La Dorada . . . From the moment I was born, I have never said anything I did not mean”?
Correct Answer
C. Florentino Ariza
35.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Dr. Juvenal Urbino had often thought, with premonitory intention, that this would not be a propitious place for dying in the state of grace.”
Correct Answer
B. Benevolent
36.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“He was not only the city’s oldest and most illustrious physician, he was also its most fastidious man. Still, his too obvious display of learning and the disingenuous manner in which he used the power of his name had won him less affection than he deserved.”
Correct Answer
C. Excessively meticulous
37.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Their love affairs were slow and difficult and were often disturbed by sinister omens, and life seemed interminable.”
Correct Answer
E. Wearisomely long
38.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Comforted by yet another victory over old age, he surrendered to the diaphanous and fluid lyricism of the final piece on the program, which he could not identify.”
Correct Answer
A. Ethereal and delicate
39.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“[Fermina] felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.”
Correct Answer
E. Uncompromising quality
40.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Tránsito Ariza was a freed quadroon whose instinct for happiness had been frustrated by poverty.”
Correct Answer
A. A person with ¼ black ancestry
41.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“In reality, Fermina Daza knew very little about this taciturn suitor who had appeared in her life like a winter swallow and whose name she would not even have known if it had not been for his signature on the letter.”
Correct Answer
B. Quiet
42.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Their relations had become fluid within the formal reserve that she had imposed since the expulsion of Aunt Escolástica, and this allowed [Fermina and Lorenzo] such a comfortable modus vivendi that no one would have doubted that it was based on affection.”
Correct Answer
B. Way of life
43.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“[Euclides] said he had seen the body of the commander, dressed for battle and floating sideways inside the aquarium of the forecastle, and that if he had not dived down to the hold with all its treasure, it was because he did not have enough air in his lungs. There were the proofs: an emerald earring and a medal of the Virgin, the chain corroded by salt.”
Correct Answer
A. Crew’s quarters located in the bow of the ship
44.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Instead of the commotion of love, she felt the abyss of disenchantment. In an instant the magnitude of her own mistake was revealed to her, and she asked herself, appalled, how she could have nurtured such a chimera in her heart for so long and with so much ferocity.”
Correct Answer
A. An illusion or unattainable dream
45.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“And so the most difficult hours passed for him, at times in the person of a timid prince or a paladin of love, at other times in his own scalded hide of a lover in the middle of forgetting, until the first breezes began to blow and he went to doze in the lounge chairs by the railing.”
Correct Answer
D. Champion
46.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Before he left the boat he succumbed to the temptation of a symbolic act: he threw his petate into the water, and followed it with his eyes as it floated past the beacon lights of the invisible fishermen, left the lagoon, and disappeared in the ocean.”
Correct Answer
A. Hand-woven mat
47.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“Instead of their forming a permanent union, of the kind his mother dreamed about, both [Florentino and Widow Nazaret] used it to embark on a profligate way of life.”
Correct Answer
B. Entirely dissipated and immoral
48.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:
“She had been in the Tuileries in the middle of winter for the launching of the collection by Worth, the indisputable tyrant of haute couture, and the only thing she got was a case of bronchitis that kept her in bed for five days.”
Correct Answer
D. High fashion and craftsmanship
49.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“The truth is that in the midst of that sordid internecine battle in a company in perpetual crisis, in the midst of his disasters as a tireless falconer and the more and more uncertain dream of Fermina Daza, the impassive Florentino Ariza had not had a moment of inner peace . . .”
Correct Answer
B. Deadly
50.
Choose the correct synonym for the word outlined with *s. Base your choice of synonym on what the word means in context:“[Florentino] had to bite his tongue to keep from telling [Dr. Juvenal Urbino] that he had been an assiduous participant in the annual competition that had eventually interested famous poets, not only in the rest of the country but in other nations of the Caribbean as well.”
Correct Answer
D. Persistently devoted