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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

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1. What is the name of the gypsy who brings the magnet and telescope to Macondo?

(A) Alfonso

(B) Riohacha

(D) Teófilo Vargas

2. What is the nickname of the woman who beats Aureliano Segundo in an eating contest?

(A) Remedios

(B) The Elephant

(D) Lourdes

3. When Colonel Aureliano Buendía retires from the war, what does he spend his time making?

(A) Golden fishes

(B) Ceramic pottery

(D) Maps

4. What is the name of the man whom José Arcadio Buendía kills for making fun of him?

(A) Giovanni della Mirandola

(B) Mario Vargas Llosa

(D) Prudencio Aguilar

5. After a certain point in the novel, what mark distinguishes Colonel Aureliano Buendía's seventeen sons?

(A) They are all extremely fat

(B) They all have golden eyes

(D) They all wear only black clothing

6. What invention does Aureliano Triste bring to Macondo?

(A) The railroad

(B) The gyroscope

(D) Gunpowder

7. The civil war is fought between which two parties?

(A) The monarchists and the loyalists

(B) The Liberals and the Conservatives

(D) The Whigs and the Tories

8. According to Buendía family tradition, what will happen to babies born of incestuous relationships?

(A) They will be extremely small

(B) They will float away into the sky

(D) They will have tails like pigs

9. What happens to Remedios the Beauty?

(A) She is abducted by gypsies

(B) She floats away into the sky

(D) She becomes a hermit

10. How does the government put Arcadio to death?

(A) Firing squad

(B) Hanging

(D) Beheading

11. Aureliano (II) discovers that the prophecies are written in which language?

(A) Latin

(B) Hittite

(D) Sanskrit

12. Which of the following best describes Dr. Alirio Noguera?

(A) Pediatrician

(B) Liberal radical

(D) Fortune teller

13. Where is Úrsula Iguarán's gold hidden?

(A) Under her bed

(B) In the church

(D) In Colonel Aureliano Buendía's workshop

14. What job does Mauricio Babilonia do for the banana company?

(A) He is a foreman

(B) He is a security guard

(D) He is a banana picker

15. What instrument does Pietro Crespi bring to the Buendía household?

(A) The harp

(B) The pianola

(D) The timpani

16. What is the name of the first magistrate to come to Macondo, whose daughter marries Colonel Aureliano Buendía?

(A) Don Apolinar Moscote

(B) Don Pedro Vasquez

(D) Don Isaac Abravanel

17. As a mark of her regret, what does Amaranta wear until she dies?

(A) A cross around her neck

(B) A scarlet handkerchief over her hair

(D) A crown of thorns around her forehead

18. Which bad habit does Rebeca not have when she first comes to Macondo?

(A) Eating dirt

(B) Eating whitewash

(D) Bathing in mud

19. What is the name of the black woman who becomes Aureliano (II)'s lover?

(A) Nigromanta

(B) Cornelia

(D) Marcela

20. Gaston, Amaranta Úrsula's husband, tries to start which kind of business?

(A) Selling books

(B) Delivering airmail

(D) Making ice

21. Jose Aureliano Segundo is the sole surviving witness to what catastrophe?

(A) The flood in town

(B) The great fire in the church

(D) The massacre of the striking workers

22. How do Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes become rich?

(A) They find Úrsula Iguarán's buried gold

(B) Their farm animals breed extremely rapidly

(D) They go to work at the banana plantation

23. Aureliano José is shot in the back while running away from soldiers in which building?

(A) The movie theater

(B) The church

(D) The Buendía house

24. What infectious disease does Rebeca bring to Macondo?

(A) Measles

(B) Insomnia

(D) Smallpox

25. What do Aureliano (II) and Amaranta Úrsula name their baby?

(A) Aureliano

(B) Mauricio Babilonia

(D) Gerineldo Marquez

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