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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many illegitimate children of Colonel Aureliano Buendia are introduced to Ursula?
(a) Sixteen
(b) Five
(c) Ten
(d) Seventeen

2. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do when he visits the jail?
(a) Burns the jail down
(b) Gives up his power
(c) Helps his friend escape
(d) Cries

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

4. Who does Rebeca marry?
(a) Pietro
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano

5. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia invent to help with the plague?
(a) A comfy chair
(b) A pair of headphones to block out music
(c) A spinning dictionary
(d) A tasty meal

6. What happens to Jose Arcadio after he sleeps with the young girl?
(a) He marries her.
(b) He tells his parents.
(c) He kills the girl.
(d) He leaves town.

7. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?
(a) He raised cattle.
(b) He rode bulls.
(c) He was a farmer.
(d) He was a cockfighter.

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

9. Who finally cures the plague?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Melquanades
(c) Ursula
(d) Rebeca

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

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

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

13. Who is the expert musician?
(a) Pietro Crespi
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano
(d) Melquandes

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a bony and thin adult who never amounts to much?

2. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?

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

4. Who goes to a theater and is accosted by soldiers, only to be shot?

5. What did Melqunades seemingly die of?

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