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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. How does Ursula help to stall Rebeca's wedding?
(a) By sleeping with the groom.
(b) By killing the groom.
(c) By telling everyone that the wedding is cancelled.
(d) By saying that the wedding will be in the unbuilt cathedral.

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

3. How many children does Santa Sofia de la Piedad now have?
(a) One
(b) None
(c) Two
(d) Three

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

5. What is/are the names of Jose Arcadio and Ursula's child/children?
(a) They did not have any children.
(b) Jose Arcadio and Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio, Aureliano, and Pietro
(d) Jose Arcadio

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?

2. Where is the story located?

3. What does Ursula attempt to sell with her girls?

4. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula not consummate their relationship?

5. Who seizes Macondo again?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When a messenger arrives from the Liberal Revolutionary Forces, what does Arcadio do?

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

4. Who does Aureliano Buendia marry?

5. Describe Jose Arcadio Segundo.

6. What happens to prevent the execution of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

7. What horrible thing happens when Colonel Aureliano Buendia takes up a brief residence in Macondo again?

8. What happens to Pietro when Amaranta finally rejects his long proposal and courtship?

9. How do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia learn that Rebeca is related to them?

10. How does Amaranta raise her son Aureliano Jose, and why is this inappropriate?

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