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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants his throat slashed when he dies?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

2. Who does Amaranta Ursula return to the house with?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano
(c) Gaston, her Belgian husband
(d) Pietro

3. Who dies on Good Friday?
(a) Ursula
(b) Fernanda del Carpio
(c) Rebeca
(d) Aureliano Segundo

4. Who dies, and is left dressed as a queen in repose?
(a) Fernanda del Carpio
(b) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(c) Ursula
(d) Meme

5. What does the builder of the answer in #129 do to Jose Arcadio's grave?
(a) Burns it
(b) Moves it
(c) Erects a fortress of concrete
(d) Spits on it

6. Who gives the person in #154 a long monologue of grief?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Fernanda del Carpio
(c) Ursula
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

7. Where is Meme take by Fernanda del Carpio?
(a) To her relative's house
(b) To another lover
(c) To the sea
(d) To a convent

8. Who is juggling two women?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio

9. What helps increase the modernization of Macondo?
(a) An airport
(b) A new leader
(c) A shopping mall
(d) A railroad

10. What gets in the way of Amaranta's restoration of the house?
(a) Lack of money
(b) Red ants
(c) Rain
(d) Winds

11. What does Amaranta see a vision of?
(a) Meme's death
(b) Her own death
(c) Jose Arcadio's death
(d) Ursula's death

12. Why does Meme continue to play her instrument even though she doesn't enjoy it?
(a) Because she is bored
(b) Because it pleases her mother
(c) Because she wants to impress a man
(d) Because she is told to

13. Who likes to bathe a lot and walk around nude?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Ursula
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Remedios the Beauty

14. When does this event that Amaranta envisions in #143 happen?
(a) When she is out late at night
(b) When she is finishing her funeral shroud
(c) When she is crossing the street
(d) When she is walking toward the banana factory

15. Whose wealth washes away?
(a) Ursula
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Segundo

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aureliano Segundo do with his wealth?

2. Which woman assumes she would be royalty?

3. Why did Fernanda del Carpio accept the marriage proposal from Aureliano Segundo?

4. Who leaves home for papal training in Rome?

5. Who does Meme meet and begin to have an affair with?

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