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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tries, though unsuccessfully, to court Amaranta?
(a) Gerineldo Marquez
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

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

4. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?
(a) Gives him a job
(b) Gives him to Remedios.
(c) Executes him
(d) Locks him in prison

5. What happens when a rich man comes into town?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo steals from him.
(b) Ursula sleeps with him.
(c) Aureliano Segundo kills him.
(d) Remedios is oblivious to him.

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

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

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

9. Who are identical twins?
(a) Aracadio and Aureliano
(b) Aureliano and Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio and Arcadio

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

11. Who does Arcadio transfer land grants to?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Pietro

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

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

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

15. What happens to the solider who shoots the person in #89?
(a) He is shot immediately.
(b) He is rewarded.
(c) He is let go.
(d) He is court martialed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the answer in #113 finally choose?

2. What do Ursula and Jose Arcadio believe will happen if they have children?

3. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?

4. Who vies for the love of Pietro?

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

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