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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. Which woman assumes she would be royalty?
(a) Ursula
(b) Fernanda del Carpio
(c) Remedios
(d) Petra Cotes

2. When does this event that Amaranta envisions in #143 happen?
(a) When she is finishing her funeral shroud
(b) When she is out late at night
(c) When she is walking toward the banana factory
(d) When she is crossing the street

3. How many people are massacred?
(a) 30
(b) 300
(c) 3,000
(d) 1,000

4. What happens to the boy that appeared to be missing?
(a) He was kidnapped.
(b) He ran away.
(c) He was taken by the midwife.
(d) He was taken away by red ants and eaten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is buried in the courtyard of a brothel?

2. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?

3. Why did Fernanda del Carpio accept the marriage proposal from Aureliano Segundo?

4. What has been happening in the town for nearly five years?

5. What does Amaranta Ursula do when Gaston writes of his return to the town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

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

4. What does the banana company do when people begin to complain of unfair working conditions?

5. Who is the stranger who arrives at the door?

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

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

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

9. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

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