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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 the builder of the answer in #129 do to Jose Arcadio's grave?
(a) Spits on it
(b) Burns it
(c) Erects a fortress of concrete
(d) Moves it

2. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?
(a) Santa Sofia de la Piedad dies.
(b) Santa Sofia de la Piedad remarries.
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad leaves town.
(d) Santa Sofia de la Piedad delivers twins.

3. 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 burns down his own house.
(c) He withdraws from command.
(d) He decides to get married.

4. Who likes to bathe a lot and walk around nude?
(a) Ursula
(b) Rebeca
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Remedios the Beauty

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Colonel Aureliano Buendia have so many illegitimate children?

3. What eventually prevents Rebeca's wedding indefinitely?

4. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia return to Macondo to do?

5. Who tries, though unsuccessfully, to court Amaranta?

(see the answer key)

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