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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. Who is tampering with Rebeca's impending wedding?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Amaranta

3. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?
(a) Mrs. Price
(b) Mr. Smithly
(c) Mr. Herbert
(d) Mr. Hill

4. What helps increase the modernization of Macondo?
(a) A new leader
(b) A shopping mall
(c) A railroad
(d) An airport

5. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?
(a) A gold mine
(b) A banana plantation
(c) A resort
(d) A railroad

Short Answer Questions

1. Who returns home with crude manners and many tattoos?

2. How many children does Santa Sofia de la Piedad now have?

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

4. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?

5. Who realizes he has no valid cause to fight?

(see the answer key)

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