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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Remedios the Beauty when she is out doing the laundry?
(a) She hurts her head.
(b) She forgets the clothesline clips.
(c) She ascends into heaven.
(d) She runs from the other women.

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

3. Who wants to see better working conditions at the banana factory?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio Buensia
(d) Arcadio Segundo

4. How old is Ursula's house at this point of the story?
(a) Less than 100 years old
(b) 50 years old, exactly
(c) Over 100 years old
(d) It's brand new

5. Why does Amaranta Ursula not realize her heritage?
(a) A priest tells her she was named after a street.
(b) A dream tells her that she is not related to her lover.
(c) Her lover tells her the history of the Buendia family.
(d) The parchment says otherwise.

6. Who does Meme meet and begin to have an affair with?
(a) Aureliano Arcadio
(b) Mauricio Babilonia
(c) Arcadio Jose
(d) Jose Arcadio

7. Who does Aureliano meet outside of the home?
(a) A Catalonian bookseller
(b) A new lover
(c) A stranger
(d) A sage

8. What describes Fernanda del Carpio's family?
(a) Deceased
(b) Destitute
(c) Rich
(d) Famous

9. The eldest daughter of Fernanda Del Carpio takes up the __________?
(a) Clavichord
(b) Piano
(c) Guitar
(d) Flute

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

11. Who stumbles upon a vast number of gold coins that were hidden?
(a) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Arcadio

12. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?
(a) Mrs. Price
(b) Mr. Smithly
(c) Mr. Hill
(d) Mr. Herbert

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

14. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?
(a) A banana plantation
(b) A gold mine
(c) A resort
(d) A railroad

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After many days of consumption, who seems to be dying, yet recovers completely?

2. What does Gaston do when he realizes that Amaranta Ursula will never tire of Macondo?

3. When does this event that Amaranta envisions in #143 happen?

4. What happens to Jose Arcadio Segundo?

5. Since Fernanda del Carpio isn't always open to the sexual advances of Aureliano Segundo, where does he go?

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