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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?
(a) Commerce
(b) Railroads
(c) Growth
(d) Money

2. How many children do Jose Arcadio and Ursula have?
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) None
(d) Two

3. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia like to study?
(a) Rocks
(b) Literature
(c) Plants
(d) Alchemy

4. What occasionally visits the town?
(a) Gypsies
(b) Tourists
(c) Plagues
(d) High winds

5. Who was facing the firing squad "many years later"?
(a) Santa Sofia de la Pietra
(b) Jose Acadio
(c) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio Buendia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?

2. What does Jose Arcadio Buendia do when someone insults his marriage?

3. Why do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia leave their town?

4. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?

5. How long do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia wander across the mountains?

(see the answer key)

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