One Hundred Years of Solitude Quizzes

One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz 1

1 Who are the founders of Macondo?
The Marquezes

The Moscotes

The Buendias

The del Carpios
2 Where did they come from?
Santiago

Moscow

Aracataca

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

Magnets

Flying carpet

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?
They were drunk

Aguilar insulted his manhood

Aguilar was sleeping with Buendia's sister

Buendia wanted his land
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

Dance in the streets

Own fighting cocks
7 Who is the mother of Jose Arcadio's first son and Aureliano's first son?
Pilar Ternera

Remedios Moscote

Amaranta

Carmelita Montiel
8 What else does this woman do for the Buendias?
Repairs the oven

Cooks for them

Tells their fortunes

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

Rebeca

Amaranta Iguaran

Aureliano Deux
10 What plague does this Buendia bring?
Snakes

Toads

Floods

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

Republicans

Liberals

Conservatives
12 When Colonel Aureliano Buendia leaves Macondo, he leaves this man in charge, who becomes a tyrant:
General Jose Raquel Moncada

Arcadio

Aureliano Jose

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

He is shot by a firing squad

Ursula overthrows him with a great popular victory

He runs off to join the war
14 What does Melquiades leave with Jose Arcadio Buendia?
Mysterious parchments

An ice machine

An alchemy set

A seedling
15 Who do Amaranta and Rebeca fight over?
Pietro Crespi

Don Moscote

Aureliano Jose

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

55

17

3
17 Where does Jose Arcadio Buendia spend his twilight years?
On military expeditions

Searching for the fountain of youth

Tied to a tree

Working for the banana plantation
18 What is the name of the woman who sleeps, unknowingly, with both Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo?
Fernanda del Carpio

Amparo Moscote

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?
Aureliano Jose

Jose Arcadio Buendia

Jose Arcadio

Colonel Aureliano Buendia
21 What did Fernanda del Carpio's parents tell her?
That she was going to be a queen

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

That they were poor

That Aureliano Segundo would make her happy
22 What happens to Remedios the Beauty?
She is carried off to heaven

She marries a young army commander

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 stump leg

A little gold fish

A missing finger

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

To command a banana plantation

For sex tourism

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

Ice-cream man

Union organizer

Accountant

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