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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Railroad
(b) Telephone
(c) Chalk
(d) Fasle teeth

2. Who is Amaranta?
(a) She is the nurse.
(b) She is the third child born of Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula.
(c) She is the long lost cousin of the family.
(d) She is the grandmother.

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

4. What is/are the names of Jose Arcadio and Ursula's child/children?
(a) Jose Arcadio and Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio, Aureliano, and Pietro
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) They did not have any children.

5. What happens to Jose Arcadio after he sleeps with the young girl?
(a) He leaves town.
(b) He marries her.
(c) He tells his parents.
(d) He kills the girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Melqunades seemingly die of?

2. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?

3. Who does Jose Arcadio tell of his affair with Pilar Ternera?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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