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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Father Nicanor
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano

3. Who becomes lazy and dissipated and plays the accordion?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

4. What do the townspeople do when Jose Arcadio Buendia seems to go mad?
(a) They ask him to leave town.
(b) They burn the toys.
(c) They tie him to a chestnut tree in the courtyard.
(d) They make him go to a doctor.

5. Who decides to make gold fish?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(c) Aureliano Segundo
(d) Jose Segundo

6. Who does the answer in #92 kill as a result of a disagreement?
(a) General Aureliano
(b) General Jose Raquel Moncada
(c) General Jose Arcadio
(d) General Arcadio

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

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

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

10. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?
(a) Railroads
(b) Money
(c) Commerce
(d) Growth

11. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?
(a) That he will rule the town.
(b) That he will be a father shortly.
(c) That he will die soon.
(d) That he will never be rich.

12. Who is Aureliano passionately in love with?
(a) Remedios
(b) Amaranta
(c) Ursula
(d) Rebeca

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursula use to cure Rebeca?

2. Who begins to squander his wealth?

3. What does Pietro Crespi set up when he returns to town?

4. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?

5. Who is now twenty years of age without being able to take care of herself?

(see the answer keys)

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