One Hundred Years of Solitude Quizzes

One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz 1

1 Who are the founders of Macondo?
The Moscotes

The Marquezes

The Buendias

The del Carpios
2 Where did they come from?
Aracataca

Riohacha

Moscow

Santiago
3 Every March, the gypsies bring wondrous things to town. What item makes a lasting impression on Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
Magnets

Mirrors

Ice

Flying carpet
4 What relation are Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife, Ursula Iguaran?
Cousins

Second cousins once removed

Siblings

Great uncle/niece
5 Why did Jose Arcadio Buendia kill Prudencio Aguilar?
Buendia wanted his land

They were drunk

Aguilar was sleeping with Buendia's sister

Aguilar insulted his manhood
6 Don Moscote wants to make Macondo in the image of the government by asking the residents to:
Own fighting cocks

Dance in the streets

Plant chestnut trees

Paint their houses blue
7 Who is the mother of Jose Arcadio's first son and Aureliano's first son?
Carmelita Montiel

Amaranta

Pilar Ternera

Remedios Moscote
8 What else does this woman do for the Buendias?
Tells their fortunes

Repairs the oven

Cooks for them

Warns them of political intrigue
9 Which Buendia appears out of nowhere, with no past?
Amaranta Iguaran

Jose Arcadio

Rebeca

Aureliano Deux
10 What plague does this Buendia bring?
Floods

Insomnia

Toads

Snakes
11 What political party does Colonel Aureliano Buendia belong to?
Republicans

Liberals

Conservatives

Independents
12 When Colonel Aureliano Buendia leaves Macondo, he leaves this man in charge, who becomes a tyrant:
Arcadio

Aureliano Jose

General Jose Raquel Moncada

Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez
13 What happens to the tyrant of Macondo?
Amaranta stabs him with a knitting needle

He runs off to join the war

Ursula overthrows him with a great popular victory

He is shot by a firing squad
14 What does Melquiades leave with Jose Arcadio Buendia?
Mysterious parchments

An alchemy set

A seedling

An ice machine
15 Who do Amaranta and Rebeca fight over?
Jose Arcadio

Don Moscote

Pietro Crespi

Aureliano Jose
16 Not including Aureliano Jose, how many illegitimate sons does Colonel Aureliano Buendia sire?
17

55

20

3
17 Where does Jose Arcadio Buendia spend his twilight years?
Tied to a tree

Working for the banana plantation

Searching for the fountain of youth

On military expeditions
18 What is the name of the woman who sleeps, unknowingly, with both Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo?
Petra Cotes

Amparo Moscote

Pilar Ternera

Fernanda del Carpio
19 The woman chooses Aureliano Segundo. What happens when they have sex?
Their animals proliferate unnaturally

Fernanda throws pots and pans

Money rains from the ceiling

Yellow butterflies follow them
20 In his life, who does Jose Arcadio Segundo most resemble?
Aureliano Jose

Colonel Aureliano Buendia

Jose Arcadio Buendia

Jose Arcadio
21 What did Fernanda del Carpio's parents tell her?
That Aureliano Segundo would make her happy

That she had a right to be haughty and above everyone else

That she was going to be a queen

That they were poor
22 What happens to Remedios the Beauty?
She goes to Europe

She marries a young army commander

She disappears in the middle of the night

She is carried off to heaven
23 Colonel Aureliano Buendia's sons all bore a mark of their parentage. What was it?
A stump leg

A cross of ashes on their foreheads

A missing finger

A little gold fish
24 Why do the foreign capitalists come to Macondo?
To get oil

To get diamonds

For sex tourism

To command a banana plantation
25 At first, Jose Arcadio Segundo is a foreman for the foreigners. He changes his profession to what?
Cockfighter

Union organizer

Accountant

Ice-cream man

How does Jose earn a living?

Jose earns his keep by charming women and living off their money.

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Who loses the war?

The Liberals lose the war.

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The banana massacre scene.

In Section Seven, Marquez shares an event from his childhood. As a child living near a banana plantation, named Macondo--Marquez witnessed the massacre of striking banana workers. The dead bodies were then systematically removed from the town and...

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