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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 the banana factory do to lure workers for the massacre?
(a) Tells them they will hold their pay
(b) Tells them to gather for an important address
(c) Tells them they have a gift for them.
(d) Tells them that they need to come for additional work

2. Who wants his throat slashed when he dies?
(a) Jose Arcadio
(b) Jose Arcadio Segundo
(c) Aureliano
(d) Aureliano Segundo

3. What is Fernanda del Carpio's daughter's name?
(a) Marta
(b) Meme
(c) Julia
(d) Rebeca

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

5. What happens to Meme's lover as mentioned in #141?
(a) He buys her a large ring
(b) He is shot
(c) He proposes marriage
(d) He runs away

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to see better working conditions at the banana factory?

2. Which woman assumes she would be royalty?

3. What does the traveler in #128 return to build?

4. Who gives the person in #154 a long monologue of grief?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When does Amaranta believe she will die?

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

4. What devastation does the five-year-long event cause?

5. What is the secret that Aureliano Amador doesn't know about Amaranta Ursula?

6. Why does Meme play the clavichord?

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

8. What does Aureliano Segundo do because Fernanda is impossible to live with?

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

10. What happens when Amaranta Ursula delivers her child?

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