View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl prove she is related to Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula?
(a) She begs them to let her stay with them.
(b) She carries a bag of her parents' bones.
(c) She tells them a story.
(d) She doesn't.

2. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula not consummate their relationship?
(a) Jose has an illness.
(b) They are afraid of birth defects.
(c) Ursula does not believe in sexual relations.
(d) They are not attracted to each other.

3. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia decide to do with the person in #101?
(a) Forgives him.
(b) Makes a public mockery of him.
(c) Sentences him to death.
(d) Banishes him

4. Who does Rebeca marry?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano
(d) Pietro

5. What is happening with Santa Sofia de la Piedad when Arcadio is taken away?
(a) She is sick.
(b) She is leaving town.
(c) She is pregnant again.
(d) She is with another man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia become obsessed with?

2. What happens to Arcadio after town violence erupts?

3. What is/are the names of Jose Arcadio and Ursula's child/children?

4. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?

5. Who is now twenty years of age without being able to take care of herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jose Arcadio Segundo.

2. How do Pilar Ternera and Jose Arcadio meet?

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

4. Describe Aureliano Segundo.

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

7. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia begin to realize?

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

9. Who does Aureliano Buendia marry?

10. Who are identical twins?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 459 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample