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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl prove she is related to Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?
(a) She tells them a story.
(b) She begs them to let her stay with them.
(c) She doesn't.
(d) She carries a bag of her parents' bones.

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

3. What is the final request of the person in #73?
(a) To eat a steak.
(b) To be shot in Macondo.
(c) To have some wine.
(d) To sleep with Remedios.

4. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia do when someone insults his marriage?
(a) He laughs at the man who spoke.
(b) He runs away from the man who spoke.
(c) He kills the man who spoke.
(d) He threatens the man who spoke.

5. What happens to Colonel Aureliano Buendia do on the day of the armistice?
(a) Calls on Ursula
(b) Starts a new revolution
(c) Visits the doctor
(d) Kills himself

6. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?
(a) It's ridiculous and expensive.
(b) It's fascinating and rewarding.
(c) It's something that should be passed along to the children.
(d) It's never ending and productive.

7. What do the townspeople do to combat this discovery?
(a) They forced each other to sit down.
(b) They close their eyes.
(c) They write the names of things on the items themselves.
(d) They eat only sweets.

8. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?
(a) Gives him to Remedios.
(b) Gives him a job
(c) Locks him in prison
(d) Executes him

9. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Father Nicanor
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio

10. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?
(a) Drink a cup of water.
(b) Meet with someone in the middle of the night.
(c) Sign a request to give up control.
(d) Dance with a young girl

11. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Chalk
(b) Telephone
(c) Fasle teeth
(d) Railroad

12. Who realizes he has no valid cause to fight?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Aureliano
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Arcadio

13. Why are the townspeople upset with Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?
(a) They are a different race.
(b) They took over a larger piece of land.
(c) They are distant cousins, yet got married.
(d) They aren't nice people.

14. Who raises their child in an intimate matter past a decent age?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Amaranta
(c) Ursula
(d) Remedios

15. Who is a witness to a military executions that then scars him for life?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the town's magistrate?

2. What is one of the first thing Ursula buys for her ever expanding home?

3. What happens when Rebeca gives into desire?

4. What is the greatest invention that the gypsies bring to Jose Arcadio Buendia?

5. When Moncada's widow doesn't let Colonel Aureliano Buendia in the door, what does he do?

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