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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the person in #42 dies, what does the town have to do?
(a) Build their first cemetary
(b) Have a funeral procession
(c) Build a funeral pyre
(d) Find a religious leader

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

3. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?
(a) He destroys the pianola.
(b) He leaves town.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He rejects her first.

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

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

6. Who is Aureliano passionately in love with?
(a) Remedios
(b) Rebeca
(c) Amaranta
(d) Ursula

7. Who needs a ten foot circle drawn around him?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Colonel Moncada

8. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?
(a) Ursula
(b) Mechanical animals
(c) The moon
(d) The ants

9. Who is the head of the gypsies?
(a) Ursula
(b) Aureliano
(c) Remedios
(d) Melqunades

10. How many children do Jose Arcadio and Ursula have?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three

11. What does Aureliano do when he heads about the conservatives?
(a) Starts his own revolution.
(b) Joins the conservatives.
(c) Leaves town.
(d) Kills the conservative leader, his father-in-law.

12. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia decide to do with the person in #101?
(a) Makes a public mockery of him.
(b) Forgives him.
(c) Banishes him
(d) Sentences him to death.

13. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?
(a) When Ursula has a nervous breakdown.
(b) When he prays for something and it doesn't happen.
(c) When they are asked to paint their house blue.
(d) When he tries unsuccesfully to take a picture of God.

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

15. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do when he visits the jail?
(a) Burns the jail down
(b) Gives up his power
(c) Cries
(d) Helps his friend escape

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?

2. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?

3. When Moncada's widow doesn't let Colonel Aureliano Buendia in the door, what does he do?

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

5. Who realizes he has no valid cause to fight?

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