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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Colonel Aureliano Buendia have so many illegitimate children?
(a) He was drunk.
(b) He wants to spread his bloodline.
(c) He doesn't like to be committed.
(d) Young women offer themselves to successful military commanders

2. What happens to the solider who shoots the person in #89?
(a) He is court martialed.
(b) He is shot immediately.
(c) He is rewarded.
(d) He is let go.

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

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

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

6. Who is finally married?
(a) Aureliano Buendia and Remedios Moscote
(b) Pietro and Amaranta
(c) Ursula and Aureliano
(d) Pietro and Rebeca

7. Who borrows a fortune from Aureliano Segundo to build a water trade route through the town?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Ursula
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano Jose

8. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia like to study?
(a) Plants
(b) Literature
(c) Alchemy
(d) Rocks

9. Why are the townspeople upset with Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?
(a) They took over a larger piece of land.
(b) They are distant cousins, yet got married.
(c) They are a different race.
(d) They aren't nice people.

10. Who is the town's magistrate?
(a) Ursula
(b) Arcadio
(c) Pietro
(d) Jose Arcadio

11. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?
(a) Sign a request to give up control.
(b) Meet with someone in the middle of the night.
(c) Dance with a young girl
(d) Drink a cup of water.

12. Who realizes he has no valid cause to fight?
(a) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(b) Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano

13. Who raises their child in an intimate matter past a decent age?
(a) Remedios
(b) Rebeca
(c) Ursula
(d) Amaranta

14. When Pilar won't sleep with Arcadio, who does she send?
(a) Ursula
(b) Rebeca
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(d) Amaranta

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who steps in to stop the execution in Macondo?

3. Who becomes fixated on Amaranta as a sexual object?

4. What do the townspeople do to combat this discovery?

5. What has the answer in #42 left behind?

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