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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amaranta see a vision of?
(a) Jose Arcadio's death
(b) Ursula's death
(c) Meme's death
(d) Her own death

2. Who dies, and is left dressed as a queen in repose?
(a) Fernanda del Carpio
(b) Ursula
(c) Santa Sofia de la Piedad
(d) Meme

3. Whose wealth washes away?
(a) Ursula
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Aureliano Segundo
(d) Jose Arcadio

4. What happens between Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula?
(a) Amaranta professes her love for him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He takes her body in the room beside a room where Gaston is reading.
(d) Aureliano convinces her to leave with him.

5. Who dies on Good Friday?
(a) Fernanda del Carpio
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Ursula
(d) Rebeca

6. Who does Amaranta Ursula return to the house with?
(a) Aureliano
(b) Gaston, her Belgian husband
(c) Pietro
(d) Jose Arcadio

7. Who does Aureliano meet outside of the home?
(a) A Catalonian bookseller
(b) A sage
(c) A stranger
(d) A new lover

8. After many days of consumption, who seems to be dying, yet recovers completely?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Aureliano Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Segundo

9. What happens to Remedios the Beauty when she is out doing the laundry?
(a) She hurts her head.
(b) She forgets the clothesline clips.
(c) She runs from the other women.
(d) She ascends into heaven.

10. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?
(a) Mr. Hill
(b) Mr. Herbert
(c) Mr. Smithly
(d) Mrs. Price

11. Who is locked in the laboratory?
(a) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Meme
(d) Ursula

12. What helps increase the modernization of Macondo?
(a) A railroad
(b) An airport
(c) A shopping mall
(d) A new leader

13. Who leaves home for papal training in Rome?
(a) Aureliano Jose
(b) Jose Buendia
(c) Jose Arcadio
(d) Aureliano Buendia

14. What gets in the way of Amaranta's restoration of the house?
(a) Rain
(b) Red ants
(c) Winds
(d) Lack of money

15. Who does Meme meet and begin to have an affair with?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Mauricio Babilonia
(c) Arcadio Jose
(d) Aureliano Arcadio

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Fernanda del Carpio accept the marriage proposal from Aureliano Segundo?

2. What does the banana factory do to lure workers for the massacre?

3. Who is juggling two women?

4. Who decides never to speak again as a result of her loss?

5. What is Fernanda del Carpio's daughter's name?

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