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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is a bony and thin adult who never amounts to much?
(a) Aurelian Segundo
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio

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

7. How long do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia wander across the mountains?
(a) 26 days
(b) 26 months
(c) 26 weeks
(d) 26 minutes

8. Who steps in to stop the execution in Macondo?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Amaranta
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio

9. What is one of the first thing Ursula buys for her ever expanding home?
(a) A new set of sheets
(b) A rug
(c) A pianola
(d) A record player

10. Who was a humane and considerate ruler of Macondo?
(a) General Jose Raquel Moncada
(b) General Arcadio
(c) General Aureliano
(d) General Jose Arcadio

11. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?
(a) When he tries unsuccesfully to take a picture of God.
(b) When Ursula has a nervous breakdown.
(c) When they are asked to paint their house blue.
(d) When he prays for something and it doesn't happen.

12. Who is Arcadio's mother?
(a) Pilar
(b) Ursula
(c) Remedios
(d) Rebeca

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

14. Who does Jose Arcadio tell of his affair with Pilar Ternera?
(a) His mother Ursula
(b) His father Jose Arcadio Buendia.
(c) His younger brother Aureliano.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many illegitimate children of Colonel Aureliano Buendia are introduced to Ursula?

2. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?

3. What do the townspeople do to combat this discovery?

4. Who is the head of the gypsies?

5. What is NOT one of Rebeca's symptoms?

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