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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursula use to cure Rebeca?

2. Who is Aureliano passionately in love with?

3. Who is the expert musician?

4. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?

5. What is one of the first thing Ursula buys for her ever expanding home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the murderer of Aureliano Jose?

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

3. Who vies for the attention of Pietro Crespi?

4. What is Colonel Aureliano Buendia's final request when he is caught and court martialed?

5. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do with his newfound solitude?

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

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

8. What is Pietro Crespi a master at doing?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the parchment so important for the characters in the book? What makes this parchment something important to the family? What happens when the parchment is finally deciphered? Who is the one who deciphers it? Why is it so important that this character be the one who deciphers the parchment?

Essay Topic 2

The weather is another strong theme in this book, often changing along with the events in the story. Give specific examples of different weather patterns in this book as well as related examples of how the story is mirroring the weather, and vice versa.

Essay Topic 3

How does the banana factory affect the town? Give specific examples as to how the factory affects the town structure, the families, the women, the men, and the progress of Macondo.

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