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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Fasle teeth
(b) Telephone
(c) Chalk
(d) Railroad

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

3. What is happening with Santa Sofia de la Piedad when Arcadio is taken away?
(a) She is pregnant again.
(b) She is leaving town.
(c) She is with another man.
(d) She is sick.

4. Who does Jose Arcadio tell of his affair with Pilar Ternera?
(a) His father Jose Arcadio Buendia.
(b) No one.
(c) His younger brother Aureliano.
(d) His mother Ursula

5. How does the girl prove she is related to Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?
(a) She tells them a story.
(b) She doesn't.
(c) She carries a bag of her parents' bones.
(d) She begs them to let her stay with them.

6. What has the answer in #42 left behind?
(a) Money
(b) A bag of bones
(c) A child
(d) A giant stack of manuscript pages

7. Who is the new leader of Macondo as a result of #91?
(a) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(b) Colonel Aureliano Jose
(c) Colonel Arcadio
(d) Colonel Jose

8. What happens when Rebeca gives into desire?
(a) She forgets about Pietro.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She tells Ursula.
(d) She builds a new house.

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

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

11. What happens to Arcadio after town violence erupts?
(a) He is captured and executed.
(b) He proves his innocence.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He flees the town.

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

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

14. What does Ursula use to cure Rebeca?
(a) Rhubarb soaked in orange juice
(b) Lemon tea
(c) Poultices.
(d) Beets

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?

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

3. Who is the head of the gypsies?

4. Who courts the twins?

5. Who joins the revolutionary forces as a result of rejection?

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