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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 does Amaranta Ursula do when Gaston writes of his return to the town?
(a) She is overjoyed.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She tells him not to come back.

2. What helps increase the modernization of Macondo?
(a) A shopping mall
(b) An airport
(c) A new leader
(d) A railroad

3. Who is locked in the laboratory?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Meme
(c) Ursula
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

4. Who gives the person in #154 a long monologue of grief?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Fernanda del Carpio
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Ursula

5. Since Fernanda del Carpio isn't always open to the sexual advances of Aureliano Segundo, where does he go?
(a) To Petra Cotes
(b) To Ursula
(c) To Remedios
(d) To Pilar

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jose Arcadio Segundo?

2. When does this event that Amaranta envisions in #143 happen?

3. What does the builder of the answer in #129 do to Jose Arcadio's grave?

4. What do Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes do to make money?

5. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aureliano Segundo do because Fernanda is impossible to live with?

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

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

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

7. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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

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

10. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

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