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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Arcadio's mother?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Pilar
(c) Remedios
(d) Ursula

2. What has the answer in #42 left behind?
(a) A giant stack of manuscript pages
(b) Money
(c) A bag of bones
(d) A child

3. Why do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia leave their town?
(a) They want to raise children somewhere else.
(b) They are followed by a ghost.
(c) They want a bigger house.
(d) They are kicked out of the town.

4. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?
(a) He destroys the pianola.
(b) He kills himself.
(c) He leaves town.
(d) He rejects her first.

5. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula not consummate their relationship?
(a) Jose has an illness.
(b) They are not attracted to each other.
(c) They are afraid of birth defects.
(d) Ursula does not believe in sexual relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?

2. What happens to Jose Arcadio after he sleeps with the young girl?

3. Who goes to the river and drowns, quite unexpectedly?

4. Who is the eleven-year-old girl who arrives at the Buendia house?

5. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?

(see the answer key)

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