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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 does Aureliano Segundo do with his wealth?
(a) Hide it
(b) Donate it to charity
(c) Give it to leaders
(d) Through extravagant parties

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

3. Who gives the person in #154 a long monologue of grief?
(a) Fernanda del Carpio
(b) Aureliano Segundo
(c) Jose Arcadio Buendia
(d) Ursula

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jose Arcadio Segundo?

2. Who is the traveler that prowls around Macondo, investigating insects and bananas?

3. How old is Ursula's house at this point of the story?

4. What happens to the boy that appeared to be missing?

5. Who does Meme meet and begin to have an affair with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Santa Sofia de la Piedad just walk away one day?

2. Who is helping to pay for the essentials (e.g., food) for Fernanda?

3. Who is the stranger who arrives at the door?

4. When the child is missing from his crib, what has happened to the child?

5. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

6. When does Amaranta believe she will die?

7. What are some of the signs that Macondo is becoming more modern?

8. Who is Aureliano Segundo trying to placate in his life?

9. When Amaranta Ursula returns to Macondo, who does she bring with her?

10. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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