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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a witness to a military executions that then scars him for life?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Aureliano
(d) Jose Arcadio Segundo

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

3. What happens when a rich man comes into town?
(a) Ursula sleeps with him.
(b) Aureliano Segundo kills him.
(c) Jose Arcadio Segundo steals from him.
(d) Remedios is oblivious to him.

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

5. Who begins to find Jose Arcadio irresistible?
(a) Rebeca
(b) Ursula
(c) Pilar
(d) Amaranta

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seizes Macondo again?

2. What has the answer in #42 left behind?

3. What happens five months after Arcadio's execution?

4. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do once he begins to lose his warmth and his vigor, and after he makes a deal to kill another rival leader?

5. Who decides to make gold fish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so extraordinary about Jose Arcadio's anatomy, so much so that he gets the attention of many gypsies and even terrifies his own mother?

2. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia begin to realize?

3. What happens to the murderer of Aureliano Jose?

4. Where has Jose Arcadio been? And how can he be described?

5. Describe what is going to happen to Colonel Buendia in the not too distant past.

6. What happens to Pietro when Amaranta finally rejects his long proposal and courtship?

7. How do Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia learn that Rebeca is related to them?

8. What has Melqunades left behind after his sudden death?

9. Describe Melqunades.

10. What was Jose Arcadio Buendia's original profession?

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