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

3. What is the greatest invention that the gypsies bring to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Magic
(b) Metal
(c) Ice
(d) Fire

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

5. 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 grandmother.
(d) She is the long lost cousin of the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?

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

3. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?

4. Where did Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula originally live?

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

(see the answer key)

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