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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do once he begins to lose his warmth and his vigor, and after he makes a deal to kill another rival leader?
(a) He takes a new lover.
(b) He decides to get married.
(c) He withdraws from command.
(d) He burns down his own house.

2. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
(a) A peace symbol
(b) His initials
(c) An iodine circle over the exact position of his heart
(d) A war symbol

3. Who is the eleven-year-old girl who arrives at the Buendia house?
(a) Ruth
(b) Rena
(c) Rebeca
(d) Remedios

4. Who returns home with crude manners and many tattoos?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Melquanades
(d) Jose Arcadio

5. Who likes to bathe a lot and walk around nude?
(a) Remedios the Beauty
(b) Ursula
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Rebeca

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do when he visits the jail?

2. When the town becomes infected with insomnia, what do they discover?

3. What does Amaranta decline to do after she accepts the proposal?

4. Who is tampering with Rebeca's impending wedding?

5. Who is being sentenced to be shot to death?

(see the answer key)

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