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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. What happens to Jose Arcadio Segundo?
(a) He is promoted.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is shot and loaded onto a train with dead bodies.
(d) He is banished.

2. What is Fernanda del Carpio's daughter's name?
(a) Marta
(b) Rebeca
(c) Julia
(d) Meme

3. What do Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes do to make money?
(a) Raffle animals
(b) Sell their home
(c) Sell their bodies
(d) Sell turnips

4. How old is Ursula's house at this point of the story?
(a) Over 100 years old
(b) 50 years old, exactly
(c) Less than 100 years old
(d) It's brand new

5. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her boy?
(a) He is an iguana.
(b) He is born healthy.
(c) He has a pig's tail.
(d) He dies in birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies during this chapter?

2. What gets in the way of Amaranta's restoration of the house?

3. Whose wealth washes away?

4. Who does Aureliano see at a strange brothel?

5. What describes Fernanda del Carpio's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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

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