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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia return to Macondo to do?
(a) Meet with a lover
(b) Gather troops
(c) Take over
(d) Await the armistice

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

5. Who goes to the river and drowns, quite unexpectedly?
(a) Melqunades
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio

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

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

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

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

10. Who leaves Macondo to join the revolution?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Pietro

11. What are the names of Santa Sofia de la Piedad's children?
(a) Remedios and Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Remedios, Jose Arcadio Segundo, and Aureliano Segundo
(c) Remedios
(d) She doesn't have any children.

12. Who realizes he has no valid cause to fight?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(c) Arcadio
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

13. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
(a) His initials
(b) A war symbol
(c) A peace symbol
(d) An iodine circle over the exact position of his heart

14. Who is always engaged in productive work?
(a) Ursula
(b) Melqunades
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Buendia

15. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He rejects her first.
(c) He leaves town.
(d) He destroys the pianola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?

2. Who raises their child in an intimate matter past a decent age?

3. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?

4. What does Amaranta decline to do after she accepts the proposal?

5. Why does Colonel Aureliano Buendia have so many illegitimate children?

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