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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. Where is Meme take by Fernanda del Carpio?
(a) To a convent
(b) To another lover
(c) To the sea
(d) To her relative's house

2. Who does Meme meet and begin to have an affair with?
(a) Aureliano Arcadio
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Mauricio Babilonia
(d) Arcadio Jose

3. Why does Meme continue to play her instrument even though she doesn't enjoy it?
(a) Because it pleases her mother
(b) Because she is told to
(c) Because she wants to impress a man
(d) Because she is bored

4. Who does Amaranta Ursula return to the house with?
(a) Pietro
(b) Aureliano
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Gaston, her Belgian husband

5. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?
(a) Mrs. Price
(b) Mr. Herbert
(c) Mr. Smithly
(d) Mr. Hill

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stumbles upon a vast number of gold coins that were hidden?

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

3. Who dies, leaving Pilar the last of the second generation of the family?

4. Who is juggling two women?

5. Who dies during this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jose Arcadio Segundo doing as he's locked in the laboratory?

2. When does Amaranta believe she will die?

3. What devastation does the five-year-long event cause?

4. Who is helping to pay for the essentials (e.g., food) for Fernanda?

5. What continues to occur for five long years in Macondo?

6. Who is Aureliano Segundo trying to placate in his life?

7. When the child is missing from his crib, what has happened to the child?

8. What are some of the signs that Macondo is becoming more modern?

9. What are some of the odd behaviors of Remedios the Beauty?

10. Why does Santa Sofia de la Piedad just walk away one day?

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