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

2. What does Amaranta decline to do after she accepts the proposal?
(a) Stay in town
(b) Tell others.
(c) Be with this groom.
(d) Set a marriage date

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Macondo's growth NOT bring to the town?

2. Who is the head of the gypsies?

3. Who seizes Macondo again?

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 becomes lazy and dissipated and plays the accordion?

Short Essay Questions

1. When a messenger arrives from the Liberal Revolutionary Forces, what does Arcadio do?

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

3. The plague of Rebeca spreads across the town - who helps to save the people?

4. What happens to prevent the execution of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

5. What happens when Gerineldo Mbrquez disagrees with the decision of Colonel Aureliano Buendia?

6. How does Ursula help to prevent the marriage of Rebeca and Pietro?

7. Describe Melqunades.

8. What does Don Apolinar Moscote, a magistrate from the distant government, require that Ursula do for her home, but she then ignores the ruling?

9. 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?

10. What is the gypsies' latest wonder that they share with Jose Arcadio Buendia?

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