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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. Who is finally married?
(a) Aureliano Buendia and Remedios Moscote
(b) Pietro and Amaranta
(c) Pietro and Rebeca
(d) Ursula and Aureliano

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

3. Who does Arcadio have a daughter with?
(a) Amaranta
(b) Rebeca
(c) Remedios
(d) Santa Sofia de la Piedad

4. Who begins to squander his wealth?
(a) Jose Aureliano
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

5. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's previous occupation?
(a) He rode bulls.
(b) He was a cockfighter.
(c) He raised cattle.
(d) He was a farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the eleven-year-old girl who arrives at the Buendia house?

2. Who does Arcadio transfer land grants to?

3. Who can see the future?

4. What is one of the first thing Ursula buys for her ever expanding home?

5. Who criticized this decision the most?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn't Colonel Aureliano Buendia die when he shoots himself through the chest?

4. Why won't Ursula have sex with Jose?

5. What other event prevents Rebeca and Pietro's wedding from happening?

6. How does Ursula help to prevent the marriage of Rebeca and Pietro?

7. When Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes obsessed with mechanical animals, what do Aureliano and some townspeople do?

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

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

10. What does Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate from the distant government, require that Ursula do for her home, but she then ignores the ruling?

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