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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 stumbles upon a vast number of gold coins that were hidden?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(d) Aureliano Arcadio

2. Who decides never to speak again as a result of her loss?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Ursula
(c) Fernanda del Carpio
(d) Meme

3. Who dies during this chapter?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Fernanda del Carpio
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Colonel Gerineldo Marquez

4. What gets in the way of Amaranta's restoration of the house?
(a) Lack of money
(b) Winds
(c) Rain
(d) Red ants

5. After many days of consumption, who seems to be dying, yet recovers completely?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Aureliano Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is juggling two women?

3. Who begins to work at decoding the Melqunades manuscript?

4. What does Amaranta see a vision of?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

2. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

3. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

4. What is the secret that Aureliano Amador doesn't know about Amaranta Ursula?

5. When Amaranta Ursula returns to Macondo, who does she bring with her?

6. Who is the woman that Aureliano Segundo finally chooses?

7. What does Meme do after her lover Mauricio Babilonia is shot and killed?

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

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

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

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