One Hundred Years of Solitude Quizzes

One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz 1

By Caille Millner · Last reviewed November 16, 2001

1 Who are the founders of Macondo?

The Marquezes

The del Carpios

The Moscotes

The Buendias
2 Where did they come from?

Riohacha

Santiago

Aracataca

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

Flying carpet

Magnets

Ice

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

Cousins

Siblings

Great uncle/niece

Second cousins once removed
5 Why did Jose Arcadio Buendia kill Prudencio Aguilar?

Aguilar insulted his manhood

Buendia wanted his land

They were drunk

Aguilar was sleeping with Buendia's sister
6 Don Moscote wants to make Macondo in the image of the government by asking the residents to:

Own fighting cocks

Paint their houses blue

Dance in the streets

Plant chestnut trees
7 Who is the mother of Jose Arcadio's first son and Aureliano's first son?

Pilar Ternera

Amaranta

Carmelita Montiel

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

Repairs the oven

Warns them of political intrigue

Tells their fortunes

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?

Floods

Snakes

Toads

Insomnia
11 What political party does Colonel Aureliano Buendia belong to?

Liberals

Independents

Conservatives

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

Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez

General Jose Raquel Moncada

Arcadio

Aureliano Jose
13 What happens to the tyrant of Macondo?

Amaranta stabs him with a knitting needle

He runs off to join the war

He is shot by a firing squad

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

An alchemy set

A seedling

Mysterious parchments

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

Jose Arcadio

Don Moscote

Aureliano Jose

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

3

55

20

17
17 Where does Jose Arcadio Buendia spend his twilight years?

Searching for the fountain of youth

Tied to a tree

Working for the banana plantation

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

Amparo Moscote

Petra Cotes

Fernanda del Carpio

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

Yellow butterflies follow them

Their animals proliferate unnaturally

Money rains from the ceiling

Fernanda throws pots and pans
20 In his life, who does Jose Arcadio Segundo most resemble?

Aureliano Jose

Jose Arcadio

Jose Arcadio Buendia

Colonel Aureliano Buendia
21 What did Fernanda del Carpio's parents tell her?

That they were poor

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
22 What happens to Remedios the Beauty?

She marries a young army commander

She is carried off to heaven

She goes to Europe

She disappears in the middle of the night
23 Colonel Aureliano Buendia's sons all bore a mark of their parentage. What was it?

A little gold fish

A stump leg

A missing finger

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

To get diamonds

For sex tourism

To get oil

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

Ice-cream man

Cockfighter

Accountant

Union organizer

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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