Q 01/05

In the famous opening line of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colonel recalls his father taking him to discover what?

A) The sea

B) Ice

C) Gold

D) Magnets

Answer · why

B) Ice

Ice. Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembers it as he faces a firing squad; his father paid a gypsy to touch the block and declared it the great invention...

Q 02/05

Which real town, García Márquez's birthplace, inspired the fictional Macondo?

A) Cartagena

B) Aracataca

C) Riohacha

D) Ciénaga

Answer · why

B) Aracataca

Aracataca. In 2006 its mayor held a referendum to rename the town Aracataca-Macondo and draw tourists; over 90% voted yes, but too few residents turne...

Q 03/05

Which plague in One Hundred Years of Solitude makes Macondo label every object?

A) Sleeping sickness

B) Insomnia

C) Yellow fever

D) Rabies

Answer · why

B) Insomnia

Insomnia. As the sleepless townspeople forget the names of things, they label them all, and hang a sign on the cow to say she must be milked every mor...

Q 04/05

García Márquez mailed One Hundred Years of Solitude in halves, lacking what?

A) Paper

B) Time

C) Postage

D) Copies

Answer · why

C) Postage

Postage. He and his wife came up short at the post office, so they sent half the pages, then posted the rest after a trip to the pawnshop.

Q 05/05

When José Arcadio is shot, what crosses Macondo to reach his mother?

A) His horse

B) His blood

C) Dead birds

D) Smoke

Answer · why

B) His blood

His blood. A trickle of it slips under the door, crosses the town and hugs the walls of the family house so as not to stain the rugs, until it finds Ú...