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One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz: Pages 1–195

When it comes to recalling what happened to all the Buendías, are you more like José Arcadio Buendía looking at the bigger picture or do you know a little something about everyone like Pilar Ternera? Take this quiz and find out!
1. Who is the first to realize that the insomnia plague has infected the Buendía household?
Visitación
Cataure
Melquíades

2. What detains Aureliano Buendía from marrying Remedios Mascote?
Their fathers are bitter enemies.
Father Nicanor Reyna has to build a church first.
Remedios hasn't reached puberty.

3. At first, what drives Rebeca to start eating dirt again?
Amaranta dares her to.
She is deliriously in love with Pietro Crespi.
She does it to punish herself for marrying her adopted brother José Arcadio.

4. When José Arcadio comes back to Macondo, how does he make a living?
Arm wrestling.
Plowing fields.
Auctioning himself to women.

5. Whose ghost takes care of José Arcadio Buendía in his final days?
Remedios Mascote
Prudencio Aguilar
Melquíades

6. Why doesn't Pilar Ternera sleep with Arcadio?
He is a Conservative and she is a Liberal.
She is married to someone else.
She is his mother.
7. Whose advances does Amaranta reject?
Pietro Crespi, Aureliano José and Gerineldo Márquez
Pietro Crespi, Arcadio and Father Nicanor Reyna
Catarino, General Moncada and Aureliano Segundo

8. Why does Aureliano José desert the army?
He hears his father, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, has been murdered.
A soldier tells him he can marry his aunt.
He is tired of war.

9. Before Colonel Aureliano Buendía tries to commit suicide, who prevents him from destroying Remedios' daguerreotype?
Santa Sofía de la Piedad
Pilar Ternera
Úrsula

10. Which Buendía actually dies in front of a firing squad?
Aureliano José
Arcadio
José Arcadio Segundo