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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is left in charge of Macondo when the answer from #61 leaves?

3. Who is the head of the gypsies?

4. What is the final request of the person in #73?

5. Who is Amaranta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the ailments of Rebeca?

2. How does Ursula help to prevent the marriage of Rebeca and Pietro?

3. The plague of Rebeca spreads across the town - who helps to save the people?

4. What happens to Pietro when Amaranta finally rejects his long proposal and courtship?

5. When Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes obsessed with mechanical animals, what do Aureliano and some townspeople do?

6. Describe what is going to happen to Colonel Buendia in the not too distant past.

7. 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?

8. What does Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate from the distant government, require that Ursula do for her home, but she then ignores the ruling?

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

10. How do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia learn that Rebeca is related to them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The love that is described in this novel is a bit different from most readers' traditional ideas about love. It seems the family is quite hindered by their lack of ability to love. Describe three reasons why the Buendia family might have had such a hard time creating love in their lives.

Essay Topic 2

How does the banana factory affect the town? Give specific examples as to how the factory affects the town structure, the families, the women, the men, and the progress of Macondo.

Essay Topic 3

From the very beginning of this novel, the idea of time is an important theme. Because time seems to be cyclical in nature, it's difficult to tell when events happen - or if they even happen at all. Describe three events in the novel where time seems to affect the memory of the event as well as how time affects those involved in the event: the banana factory massacre, the political turn of events, and the deeds of Colonel Aureliano Buendia.

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