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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?
(a) Railroads
(b) Money
(c) Growth
(d) Commerce

2. What do Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes do to make money?
(a) Sell their home
(b) Sell turnips
(c) Sell their bodies
(d) Raffle animals

3. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?
(a) He rode bulls.
(b) He was a cockfighter.
(c) He raised cattle.
(d) He was a farmer.

4. Who is being sentenced to be shot to death?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

5. What does Aureliano have to wait for before he can be with the answer of #40?
(a) The girl's menarche
(b) The new year
(c) The full moon
(d) The permission of the parents

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a humane and considerate ruler of Macondo?

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?

3. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?

4. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?

5. Who is the expert musician?

(see the answer key)

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