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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is painted on the chest of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
(a) A peace symbol
(b) His initials
(c) An iodine circle over the exact position of his heart
(d) A war symbol

2. What do the townspeople do when Jose Arcadio Buendia seems to go mad?
(a) They make him go to a doctor.
(b) They burn the toys.
(c) They tie him to a chestnut tree in the courtyard.
(d) They ask him to leave town.

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

4. How many illegitimate children of Colonel Aureliano Buendia are introduced to Ursula?
(a) Sixteen
(b) Ten
(c) Seventeen
(d) Five

5. Who is the town's magistrate?
(a) Arcadio
(b) Ursula
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Pietro

6. Who rejects the Buendia name?
(a) Amaranta
(b) Arcadio
(c) Rebeca
(d) Aureliano

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

8. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?
(a) Santa Sofia de la Piedad remarries.
(b) Santa Sofia de la Piedad dies.
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad leaves town.
(d) Santa Sofia de la Piedad delivers twins.

9. How does Ursula help to stall Rebeca's wedding?
(a) By telling everyone that the wedding is cancelled.
(b) By sleeping with the groom.
(c) By saying that the wedding will be in the unbuilt cathedral.
(d) By killing the groom.

10. What do the soldiers do when the execution is interrupted?
(a) Run away
(b) Decide to join the liberal side
(c) Miss their target
(d) Shoot Jose Arcadio

11. Who is now twenty years of age without being able to take care of herself?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Remedios the Beauty
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(d) Ursula

12. Who was a humane and considerate ruler of Macondo?
(a) General Aureliano
(b) General Jose Arcadio
(c) General Jose Raquel Moncada
(d) General Arcadio

13. What has the answer in #42 left behind?
(a) A child
(b) A giant stack of manuscript pages
(c) A bag of bones
(d) Money

14. How long do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia wander across the mountains?
(a) 26 days
(b) 26 minutes
(c) 26 months
(d) 26 weeks

15. Who joins the revolutionary forces as a result of rejection?
(a) Aureliano Jose
(b) Pietro
(c) Aureliano Buendia
(d) Jose Arcadio

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Arcadio's mother?

2. What does Aureliano have to wait for before he can be with the answer of #40?

3. Who becomes lazy and dissipated and plays the accordion?

4. Who vies for the love of Pietro?

5. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?

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