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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the town becomes infected with insomnia, what do they discover?
(a) They cannot hold onto their memories.
(b) They can't stand up straight.
(c) They don't feel like eating.
(d) They only want to dance.

2. What is NOT a result of the event in #151?
(a) Flooding
(b) Insects
(c) Humidity
(d) Dust storms

3. What is happening with Santa Sofia de la Piedad when Arcadio is taken away?
(a) She is with another man.
(b) She is pregnant again.
(c) She is sick.
(d) She is leaving town.

4. How long do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia wander across the mountains?
(a) 26 weeks
(b) 26 days
(c) 26 minutes
(d) 26 months

5. Who returns home with crude manners and many tattoos?
(a) Melquanades
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seizes Macondo again?

2. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?

3. Who leaves home for papal training in Rome?

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

5. What do the townspeople do when Jose Arcadio Buendia seems to go mad?

(see the answer key)

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