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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?
(a) When Ursula has a nervous breakdown.
(b) When they are asked to paint their house blue.
(c) When he prays for something and it doesn't happen.
(d) When he tries unsuccesfully to take a picture of God.

2. Who can see the future?
(a) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(b) Rebeca
(c) Amaranta
(d) Pietro

3. What does Aureliano have to wait for before he can be with the answer of #40?
(a) The new year
(b) The full moon
(c) The permission of the parents
(d) The girl's menarche

4. Who borrows a fortune from Aureliano Segundo to build a water trade route through the town?
(a) Ursula
(b) Aureliano Jose
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

5. Who is a bony and thin adult who never amounts to much?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Aureliano
(d) Aurelian Segundo

Short Answer Questions

1. Who courts the twins?

2. Who tries to prevent the killing of the answer in #93?

3. Who seizes Macondo again?

4. Who becomes fixated on Amaranta as a sexual object?

5. Who is finally married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Aureliano Segundo.

2. What other event prevents Rebeca and Pietro's wedding from happening?

3. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do with his newfound solitude?

4. What happens to prevent the execution of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

5. Who vies for the attention of Pietro Crespi?

6. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula outcasts in their society?

7. What is Colonel Aureliano Buendia's final request when he is caught and court martialed?

8. Describe Jose Arcadio Segundo.

9. What is so extraordinary about Jose Arcadio's anatomy, so much so that he gets the attention of many gypsies and even terrifies his own mother?

10. How does the reader know that Colonel Aureliano Buendia has become distant?

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