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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 dies on Good Friday?

2. Who is the stranger that arrives at the door?

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

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

5. Whose wealth washes away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

10. What is the secret that Aureliano Amador doesn't know about Amaranta Ursula?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula do not want to consummate their marriage. Why not? Are their fears practical? Why do they choose to consummate their marriage anyway?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Government seems to play a significant role in this novel. How does the government positively affect Macondo? How does the government negatively affect Macondo? Give at least two specific examples of each.

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