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

2. The eldest daughter of Fernanda Del Carpio takes up the __________?
(a) Guitar
(b) Piano
(c) Clavichord
(d) Flute

3. Who begins to work at decoding the Melqunades manuscript?
(a) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Ursula
(d) Aureliano

4. Who likes to bathe a lot and walk around nude?
(a) Fernanda del Carpio
(b) Remedios the Beauty
(c) Rebeca
(d) Ursula

5. Who does Aureliano meet outside of the home?
(a) A stranger
(b) A sage
(c) A Catalonian bookseller
(d) A new lover

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Amaranta Ursula return to the house with?

2. Who gives the person in #154 a long monologue of grief?

3. Whose wealth washes away?

4. What helps increase the modernization of Macondo?

5. What does Aureliano Segundo do in his house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

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

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

9. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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

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