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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who steps in to stop the execution in Macondo?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Amaranta

2. Who is the first unofficial mayor of Macondo?
(a) Jose Arcardio Buendia
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Ursula

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

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

5. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula not consummate their relationship?
(a) They are not attracted to each other.
(b) Jose has an illness.
(c) They are afraid of birth defects.
(d) Ursula does not believe in sexual relations.

6. Who leaves town after this execution in #93 is carried out?
(a) General Buendia
(b) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(c) Colonel Jose Arcadio
(d) Colonel Moncada

7. Why do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia leave their town?
(a) They are followed by a ghost.
(b) They are kicked out of the town.
(c) They want a bigger house.
(d) They want to raise children somewhere else.

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

9. What eventually prevents Rebeca's wedding indefinitely?
(a) The death of Remedios
(b) The death of Ursula
(c) A proclamation from Father Nicanor.
(d) Amaranta's death.

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

11. Who begins to find Jose Arcadio irresistible?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Amaranta
(c) Ursula
(d) Pilar

12. Who begins to squander his wealth?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Jose Aureliano
(d) Aureliano Segundo

13. What is the final request of the person in #73?
(a) To eat a steak.
(b) To sleep with Remedios.
(c) To have some wine.
(d) To be shot in Macondo.

14. What does Aureliano have to wait for before he can be with the answer of #40?
(a) The full moon
(b) The girl's menarche
(c) The new year
(d) The permission of the parents

15. What does Pietro Crespi set up when he returns to town?
(a) A music shop
(b) A bank
(c) A market
(d) A church

Short Answer Questions

1. When the person in #42 dies, what does the town have to do?

2. What does Ursula use to cure Rebeca?

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

4. Who finally cures the plague?

5. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

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