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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who can see the future?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Pietro
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Amaranta

5. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?
(a) It's fascinating and rewarding.
(b) It's ridiculous and expensive.
(c) It's something that should be passed along to the children.
(d) It's never ending and productive.

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

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

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

9. What happens to Colonel Aureliano Buendia do on the day of the armistice?
(a) Starts a new revolution
(b) Visits the doctor
(c) Kills himself
(d) Calls on Ursula

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

11. What occasionally visits the town?
(a) Tourists
(b) Plagues
(c) High winds
(d) Gypsies

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

13. 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

14. What does Amaranta decline to do after she accepts the proposal?
(a) Stay in town
(b) Tell others.
(c) Be with this groom.
(d) Set a marriage date

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Arcadio after town violence erupts?

3. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?

4. Who is the first unofficial mayor of Macondo?

5. Who leaves town after this execution in #93 is carried out?

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