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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finally cures the plague?
(a) Melquanades
(b) Ursula
(c) Rebeca
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

2. What do the townspeople do when Jose Arcadio Buendia seems to go mad?
(a) They ask him to leave town.
(b) They burn the toys.
(c) They make him go to a doctor.
(d) They tie him to a chestnut tree in the courtyard.

3. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Father Nicanor

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?

2. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia like to study?

3. Who is Aureliano passionately in love with?

4. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?

5. What does Aureliano do when he heads about the conservatives?

(see the answer key)

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