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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Amaranta Ursula do when Gaston writes of his return to the town?

3. Where is Meme take by Fernanda del Carpio?

4. Who does Aureliano see at a strange brothel?

5. Who becomes smitten with Amaranta Ursula?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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

6. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

8. Why does Santa Sofia de la Piedad just walk away one day?

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

10. What does Jose Arcadio leave home to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The town of Macondo changes throughout the course of the novel - describe the life cycle of this town from its beginnings, changes, and to its eventual end. Why do these changes make sense for the novel and for the town itself?

Essay Topic 2

How does the banana factory affect the town? Give specific examples as to how the factory affects the town structure, the families, the women, the men, and the progress of Macondo.

Essay Topic 3

Why is the parchment so important for the characters in the book? What makes this parchment something important to the family? What happens when the parchment is finally deciphered? Who is the one who deciphers it? Why is it so important that this character be the one who deciphers the parchment?

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