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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. Who does Jose Arcadio tell of his affair with Pilar Ternera?

2. What did Melqunades seemingly die of?

3. Who is the head of the gypsies?

4. What does Amaranta decline to do after she accepts the proposal?

5. Who is the new leader of Macondo as a result of #91?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the reader know that Colonel Aureliano Buendia has become distant?

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

3. Describe Aureliano Segundo.

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

5. How does Amaranta raise her son Aureliano Jose, and why is this inappropriate?

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

7. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia begin to realize?

8. How do Pilar Ternera and Jose Arcadio meet?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the climax of the banana factor massacre. What does this have to say about organized business? What does this have to say about someone coming into an isolated setting? Is this a metaphor for a larger issue that the family has to contend with?

Essay Topic 2

Men and women have vastly different parts to play in this novel. Using characters from each generation as examples, describe the role of men in this novel as well as the roles of women. How do they differ? How are they the same?

Essay Topic 3

It could be said that the novel is comparable to the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Give some examples of how this could be the case, keeping in mind that Genesis' story begins with the creation of paradise and the eventual downfall and alteration of Paradise because of one person's choice to create the world in the first place. Cite at least four examples of similarities and differences between Genesis and the story of Macondo.

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