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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Santa Sofia de la Piedad now have?
(a) Three
(b) None
(c) One
(d) Two

2. What happens when Amaranta rejects Pietro?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He leaves town.
(c) He destroys the pianola.
(d) He rejects her first.

3. What causes Jose Arcadio Buendia to stop believing in God?
(a) When they are asked to paint their house blue.
(b) When he prays for something and it doesn't happen.
(c) When he tries unsuccesfully to take a picture of God.
(d) When Ursula has a nervous breakdown.

4. Where is the story located?
(a) Macondo
(b) Bogota
(c) Mercata
(d) Belize

5. What does Pilar Ternera tell Jose Arcadio?
(a) That he will rule the town.
(b) That he will never be rich.
(c) That he will die soon.
(d) That he will be a father shortly.

6. Who steps in to stop the execution in Macondo?
(a) Amaranta
(b) Jose Arcadio
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Aureliano

7. Where did Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula originally live?
(a) Moorata
(b) Riohacha
(c) Robato
(d) Rio de Janeiro

8. What is the most wonderful of all the objects of wonder that Melqunades brings to Jose Arcadio Buendia?
(a) Fasle teeth
(b) Railroad
(c) Chalk
(d) Telephone

9. Who decides to make gold fish?
(a) Aureliano Segundo
(b) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(c) Jose Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

10. Who needs a ten foot circle drawn around him?
(a) Colonel Aureliano Buendia
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Aureliano
(d) Colonel Moncada

11. What is/are the names of Jose Arcadio and Ursula's child/children?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) They did not have any children.
(c) Jose Arcadio, Aureliano, and Pietro
(d) Jose Arcadio and Aureliano

12. Who is mysteriously murdered?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Segundo

13. Why do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia leave their town?
(a) They are kicked out of the town.
(b) They want to raise children somewhere else.
(c) They want a bigger house.
(d) They are followed by a ghost.

14. What did Melqunades seemingly die of?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Influenza
(c) Fever
(d) Plague

15. What does Arcadio do with a messenger sent by the liberal revolutionary forces?
(a) Gives him to Remedios.
(b) Gives him a job
(c) Locks him in prison
(d) Executes him

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the expert musician?

2. What happens to Arcadio after town violence erupts?

3. Who is the Parisian woman who is taken in married by Aureliano Segundo?

4. Who criticized this decision the most?

5. What do the townspeople do when Jose Arcadio Buendia seems to go mad?

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