One Hundred Years of Solitude Quizzes

One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz 1

1 Who are the founders of Macondo?
The del Carpios

The Buendias

The Moscotes

The Marquezes
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?
Flying carpet

Mirrors

Magnets

Ice
4 What relation are Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife, Ursula Iguaran?
Second cousins once removed

Cousins

Siblings

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

Aguilar was sleeping with Buendia's sister

They were drunk

Buendia wanted his land
6 Don Moscote wants to make Macondo in the image of the government by asking the residents to:
Dance in the streets

Plant chestnut trees

Own fighting cocks

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?
Warns them of political intrigue

Tells their fortunes

Cooks for them

Repairs the oven
9 Which Buendia appears out of nowhere, with no past?
Rebeca

Aureliano Deux

Jose Arcadio

Amaranta Iguaran
10 What plague does this Buendia bring?
Toads

Floods

Insomnia

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

Independents

Conservatives

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

Aureliano Jose

Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez

General Jose Raquel Moncada
13 What happens to the tyrant of Macondo?
He is shot by a firing squad

He runs off to join the war

Amaranta stabs him with a knitting needle

Ursula overthrows him with a great popular victory
14 What does Melquiades leave with Jose Arcadio Buendia?
Mysterious parchments

A seedling

An ice machine

An alchemy set
15 Who do Amaranta and Rebeca fight over?
Jose Arcadio

Aureliano Jose

Pietro Crespi

Don Moscote
16 Not including Aureliano Jose, how many illegitimate sons does Colonel Aureliano Buendia sire?
20

55

3

17
17 Where does Jose Arcadio Buendia spend his twilight years?
Working for the banana plantation

Searching for the fountain of youth

On military expeditions

Tied to a tree
18 What is the name of the woman who sleeps, unknowingly, with both Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo?
Fernanda del Carpio

Petra Cotes

Amparo Moscote

Pilar Ternera
19 The woman chooses Aureliano Segundo. What happens when they have sex?
Money rains from the ceiling

Yellow butterflies follow them

Fernanda throws pots and pans

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

Jose Arcadio Buendia

Aureliano Jose

Colonel Aureliano Buendia
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 marries a young army commander

She disappears in the middle of the night

She is carried off to heaven

She goes to Europe
23 Colonel Aureliano Buendia's sons all bore a mark of their parentage. What was it?
A little gold fish

A cross of ashes on their foreheads

A stump leg

A missing finger
24 Why do the foreign capitalists come to Macondo?
To command a banana plantation

To get diamonds

To get oil

For sex tourism
25 At first, Jose Arcadio Segundo is a foreman for the foreigners. He changes his profession to what?
Accountant

Cockfighter

Union organizer

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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