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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 becomes smitten with Amaranta Ursula?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Gaston
(c) Aureliano
(d) Arcadio

2. What happens to Remedios the Beauty when she is out doing the laundry?
(a) She hurts her head.
(b) She runs from the other women.
(c) She ascends into heaven.
(d) She forgets the clothesline clips.

3. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?
(a) A banana plantation
(b) A resort
(c) A railroad
(d) A gold mine

4. What does Gaston do when he realizes that Amaranta Ursula will never tire of Macondo?
(a) He kills her.
(b) He leaves her.
(c) He finds a lover.
(d) He burns down their house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is juggling two women?

2. What is Fernanda del Carpio's daughter's name?

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

4. Which woman assumes she would be royalty?

5. How many people are massacred?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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