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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who needs a ten foot circle drawn around him?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Colonel Moncada

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

5. What does Aureliano have to wait for before he can be with the answer of #40?
(a) The permission of the parents
(b) The girl's menarche
(c) The full moon
(d) The new year

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

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

8. What happens to Colonel Aureliano Buendia do on the day of the armistice?
(a) Starts a new revolution
(b) Visits the doctor
(c) Calls on Ursula
(d) Kills himself

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

10. How many children do Jose Arcadio and Ursula have?
(a) None
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Three

11. Why do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia leave their town?
(a) They want to raise children somewhere else.
(b) They are followed by a ghost.
(c) They want a bigger house.
(d) They are kicked out of the town.

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

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

14. What happens when Rebeca gives into desire?
(a) She forgets about Pietro.
(b) She tells Ursula.
(c) She builds a new house.
(d) She falls asleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?

2. Who leaves Macondo to join the revolution?

3. What happens to the solider who shoots the person in #89?

4. Who is the expert musician?

5. How does the girl prove she is related to Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?

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