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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rejects the Buendia name?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Aureliano
(c) Arcadio
(d) Amaranta

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

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

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

5. When Moncada's widow doesn't let Colonel Aureliano Buendia in the door, what does he do?
(a) He leaves town.
(b) He burns down her house.
(c) He kills her.
(d) He yells at her dog.

6. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia do when someone insults his marriage?
(a) He kills the man who spoke.
(b) He runs away from the man who spoke.
(c) He threatens the man who spoke.
(d) He laughs at the man who spoke.

7. Who is a bony and thin adult who never amounts to much?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano
(c) Aurelian Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

8. Who is a witness to a military executions that then scars him for life?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Aureliano Segundo
(d) Aureliano

9. What do the soldiers do when the execution is interrupted?
(a) Shoot Jose Arcadio
(b) Run away
(c) Decide to join the liberal side
(d) Miss their target

10. Who proposes to Amaranta?
(a) Pietro
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

11. Who is the Parisian woman who is taken in married by Aureliano Segundo?
(a) Rosalie
(b) Sophie de Rosa
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Julienne la Femme

12. Who is now twenty years of age without being able to take care of herself?
(a) Remedios the Beauty
(b) Ursula
(c) Rebeca
(d) Santa Sofia de la Piedad

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is/are the names of Jose Arcadio and Ursula's child/children?

2. What is happening with Santa Sofia de la Piedad when Arcadio is taken away?

3. Who finally cures the plague?

4. Who does the answer in #113 finally choose?

5. Who borrows a fortune from Aureliano Segundo to build a water trade route through the town?

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