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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the manuscript written in?
(a) Spanish
(b) Code
(c) Latin
(d) Sanskrit

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

3. How many people are massacred?
(a) 3,000
(b) 1,000
(c) 300
(d) 30

4. Who is buried in the courtyard of a brothel?
(a) Pilar Ternera
(b) Amaranta Ursula
(c) Remedios
(d) Ursula

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

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

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

8. What happens to Meme's lover as mentioned in #141?
(a) He is shot
(b) He runs away
(c) He buys her a large ring
(d) He proposes marriage

9. Who begins to work at decoding the Melqunades manuscript?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Aureliano
(c) Ursula
(d) Jose Arcadio

10. What does Amaranta Ursula do when Gaston writes of his return to the town?
(a) She tells him not to come back.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She is overjoyed.

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

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

13. Who does Aureliano see at a strange brothel?
(a) Remedios
(b) Pilar Ternera
(c) Ursula
(d) A ghost

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leaves home for papal training in Rome?

2. What happens to Jose Arcadio Segundo?

3. What do Meme's skills allows her to do?

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

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

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