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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the townspeople do to combat this discovery?
(a) They close their eyes.
(b) They forced each other to sit down.
(c) They eat only sweets.
(d) They write the names of things on the items themselves.

2. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?
(a) When Ursula has a nervous breakdown.
(b) When he prays for something and it doesn't happen.
(c) When he tries unsuccesfully to take a picture of God.
(d) When they are asked to paint their house blue.

3. Who joins the revolutionary forces as a result of rejection?
(a) Aureliano Jose
(b) Aureliano Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Pietro

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

5. Who is the Parisian woman who is taken in married by Aureliano Segundo?
(a) Julienne la Femme
(b) Sophie de Rosa
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Rosalie

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes lazy and dissipated and plays the accordion?

2. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do once he begins to lose his warmth and his vigor, and after he makes a deal to kill another rival leader?

3. Who decides to make gold fish?

4. Who returns home with crude manners and many tattoos?

5. Who is being sentenced to be shot to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are identical twins?

2. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula outcasts in their society?

3. What is so extraordinary about Jose Arcadio's anatomy, so much so that he gets the attention of many gypsies and even terrifies his own mother?

4. How do Pilar Ternera and Jose Arcadio meet?

5. Arcadio becomes enthralled with Pilar, but since they are related, when they are supposed to meet, Pilar sends someone else in her place - who?

6. How many illegitimate sons does Colonel Aureliano Buendia have and why?

7. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's original profession?

8. Describe Jose Arcadio Segundo.

9. What is the gypsies' latest wonder that they share with Jose Arcadio Buendia?

10. Who does Aureliano Buendia marry?

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