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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What eventually prevents Rebeca's wedding indefinitely?
(a) The death of Ursula
(b) The death of Remedios
(c) A proclamation from Father Nicanor.
(d) Amaranta's death.

2. 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 burns down his own house.
(b) He withdraws from command.
(c) He decides to get married.
(d) He takes a new lover.

3. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia return to Macondo to do?
(a) Meet with a lover
(b) Await the armistice
(c) Gather troops
(d) Take over

4. Who is the eleven-year-old girl who arrives at the Buendia house?
(a) Rena
(b) Rebeca
(c) Ruth
(d) Remedios

5. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
(a) A peace symbol
(b) An iodine circle over the exact position of his heart
(c) A war symbol
(d) His initials

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursula use to cure Rebeca?

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

3. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia invent to help with the plague?

4. Who proposes to Amaranta?

5. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?

(see the answer key)

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