Helping my classmates study for Final Exam

1. What is One hundred Years of Solitude?
A. A book about war
B. A factual story of love and fear
C. National myths about a family of Macondo***
D. A story about a prisoner
E. None of these

2. What country does this book surround historically?
A. Columbia***
B. Argentina
C. Mexico
D. SpainE.
Brazil

3. When was One Hundred years of Solitude published?
A. 1925
B. 1967**
C. 1952
D. 1976
E. 1944

4. How was magical realism used in this book?
A. Ghosts visit characters and dreams happen in the story**
B. The family has magical powers
C. They live in a magic house
D. They can see the future
E. None of these

4. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, how many generations are present in the Buendia family?A. 3
B. 4
C. 7**
D. 5
E. 2

5. What was the Latin American Boom?
A. War time in Latin America
B. A time of prosperity of goods and services
C. A literary movement**
D. A time when Latin America was getting independence
E. None of these

6. What ends up destroying Macondo?
A. Greedy Spainards
B. A hurricane**
C. A letter from the King
D. A volcano
E. none of these

7. One Hundred Years of Solitude goes through what occurances?
A. the life and misfortunes of the Buendía family***
B. the interference of another family
C. Living life on the wild side
D. The revolution of Latin America
E. none of these

8. How was Úrsula related to Jose Arcadio Buendía?
A. wife
B. sister
C. first cousin
D. second cousin
E. both a and c***

9. What was one purpose to the writing of García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude?
A. to show family and history**
B. to state facts and only facts
C. to write a book about magical realism
D. to see the real way of the columbian people
E. none of these

10. When did García Márquez’s recieve the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A. 1967
B. 1987
C. 1982***
D. 1977
E. 1991