One Hundred Years of Solitude Quizzes

One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz 1

1 Who are the founders of Macondo?
The Buendias

The Moscotes

The del Carpios

The Marquezes
2 Where did they come from?
Santiago

Aracataca

Moscow

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

Ice

Mirrors

Magnets
4 What relation are Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife, Ursula Iguaran?
Siblings

Cousins

Second cousins once removed

Great uncle/niece
5 Why did Jose Arcadio Buendia kill Prudencio Aguilar?
Aguilar insulted his manhood

Aguilar was sleeping with Buendia's sister

Buendia wanted his land

They were drunk
6 Don Moscote wants to make Macondo in the image of the government by asking the residents to:
Plant chestnut trees

Paint their houses blue

Own fighting cocks

Dance in the streets
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

Warns them of political intrigue

Repairs the oven

Cooks for them
9 Which Buendia appears out of nowhere, with no past?
Rebeca

Jose Arcadio

Aureliano Deux

Amaranta Iguaran
10 What plague does this Buendia bring?
Snakes

Floods

Insomnia

Toads
11 What political party does Colonel Aureliano Buendia belong to?
Conservatives

Liberals

Independents

Republicans
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?
He runs off to join the war

Ursula overthrows him with a great popular victory

Amaranta stabs him with a knitting needle

He is shot by a firing squad
14 What does Melquiades leave with Jose Arcadio Buendia?
An alchemy set

A seedling

An ice machine

Mysterious parchments
15 Who do Amaranta and Rebeca fight over?
Aureliano Jose

Don Moscote

Pietro Crespi

Jose Arcadio
16 Not including Aureliano Jose, how many illegitimate sons does Colonel Aureliano Buendia sire?
3

17

55

20
17 Where does Jose Arcadio Buendia spend his twilight years?
On military expeditions

Working for the banana plantation

Tied to a tree

Searching for the fountain of youth
18 What is the name of the woman who sleeps, unknowingly, with both Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo?
Amparo Moscote

Fernanda del Carpio

Petra Cotes

Pilar Ternera
19 The woman chooses Aureliano Segundo. What happens when they have sex?
Yellow butterflies follow them

Money rains from the ceiling

Fernanda throws pots and pans

Their animals proliferate unnaturally
20 In his life, who does Jose Arcadio Segundo most resemble?
Colonel Aureliano Buendia

Aureliano Jose

Jose Arcadio Buendia

Jose Arcadio
21 What did Fernanda del Carpio's parents tell her?
That they were poor

That she was going to be a queen

That Aureliano Segundo would make her happy

That she had a right to be haughty and above everyone else
22 What happens to Remedios the Beauty?
She disappears in the middle of the night

She goes to Europe

She marries a young army commander

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 missing finger

A little gold fish

A cross of ashes on their foreheads
24 Why do the foreign capitalists come to Macondo?
For sex tourism

To command a banana plantation

To get oil

To get diamonds
25 At first, Jose Arcadio Segundo is a foreman for the foreigners. He changes his profession to what?
Accountant

Ice-cream man

Union organizer

Cockfighter

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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