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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is a witness to a military executions that then scars him for life?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(d) Aureliano Segundo

3. Who courts the twins?
(a) Petra Cotes
(b) Remedios
(c) Ursula
(d) Rebeca

4. What has the answer in #42 left behind?
(a) Money
(b) A child
(c) A bag of bones
(d) A giant stack of manuscript pages

5. Who is outraged by the inbreeding and young marriages?
(a) Father Nicanor
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano

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

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

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

9. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?
(a) He was a farmer.
(b) He was a cockfighter.
(c) He rode bulls.
(d) He raised cattle.

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

11. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Railroad
(b) Chalk
(c) Telephone
(d) Fasle teeth

12. Who goes to a theater and is accosted by soldiers, only to be shot?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Remedios
(c) Aureliano Jose
(d) Jose Arcadio

13. Who is the town's magistrate?
(a) Ursula
(b) Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Pietro

14. What does Ursula think about her husband's fascination with science?
(a) It's ridiculous and expensive.
(b) It's fascinating and rewarding.
(c) It's never ending and productive.
(d) It's something that should be passed along to the children.

15. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?
(a) Mechanical animals
(b) The moon
(c) Ursula
(d) The ants

Short Answer Questions

1. What occasionally visits the town?

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

3. Who is left in charge of Macondo when the answer from #61 leaves?

4. Who is the head of the gypsies?

5. Who finally cures the plague?

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