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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the soldiers do when the execution is interrupted?
(a) Miss their target
(b) Run away
(c) Decide to join the liberal side
(d) Shoot Jose Arcadio

2. Who is mysteriously murdered?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

3. Who proposes to Amaranta?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Pietro
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano

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

5. When Moncada's widow doesn't let Colonel Aureliano Buendia in the door, what does he do?
(a) He yells at her dog.
(b) He leaves town.
(c) He kills her.
(d) He burns down her house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of Rebeca's symptoms?

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

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?

4. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?

5. How does Ursula help to stall Rebeca's wedding?

(see the answer key)

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