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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the final request of the person in #73?
(a) To have some wine.
(b) To be shot in Macondo.
(c) To eat a steak.
(d) To sleep with Remedios.

3. What did Melqunades seemingly die of?
(a) Influenza
(b) Dysentery
(c) Fever
(d) Plague

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

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

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

7. Who is tampering with Rebeca's impending wedding?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Amaranta
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

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

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

10. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?
(a) Santa Sofia de la Piedad remarries.
(b) Santa Sofia de la Piedad dies.
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad leaves town.
(d) Santa Sofia de la Piedad delivers twins.

11. Who was facing the firing squad "many years later"?
(a) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(b) Santa Sofia de la Pietra
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Jose Acadio

12. Who is Amaranta?
(a) She is the nurse.
(b) She is the long lost cousin of the family.
(c) She is the third child born of Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula.
(d) She is the grandmother.

13. Who is the eleven-year-old girl who arrives at the Buendia house?
(a) Remedios
(b) Rena
(c) Ruth
(d) Rebeca

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Jose Arcadio and Ursula have?

2. Who joins the revolutionary forces as a result of rejection?

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

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

5. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

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