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

2. What is the manuscript written in?
(a) Sanskrit
(b) Latin
(c) Spanish
(d) Code

3. Who dies, and is left dressed as a queen in repose?
(a) Ursula
(b) Meme
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(d) Fernanda del Carpio

4. Who decides never to speak again as a result of her loss?
(a) Meme
(b) Rebeca
(c) Ursula
(d) Fernanda del Carpio

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 Remedios
(c) To Ursula
(d) To Pilar

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies on Good Friday?

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

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

4. Who does Aureliano see at a strange brothel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

2. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When does Amaranta believe she will die?

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