Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez Study questions

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Facts about Gabriel García Márquez

➾ Gabriel García Márquez did not meet his mother until he was almost eight years old.

➾ He derived his rich, pungent writing style directly from the storytelling mannerisms of his grandmother.

➾ He quit law school because he felt that the study of law “had nothing to do with justice”.

➾ As a reporter, he once staged a fake rebellion using sirens and drums in a remote jungle village to create a news story.

➾ An exposé he wrote on a shipwrecked sailor revealed that the naval destroyer had been carrying black market goods, which deeply embarrassed the government.

➾ He rewrote his novel No One Writes to the Colonel a remarkable eleven times.

➾ During extreme poverty in Paris, he sustained himself by re-boiling chicken bones to make daily broth.

➾ His hotel landlord trusted him enough to allow him to accumulate massive debt because they saw him constantly writing in his room.

➾ He later reflected that his three years of poverty taught him that “nobody dies of hunger” and one is capable of sleeping under bridges.

➾ He worked for a magazine sometimes nicknamed Venezuela Pornografica and stated that he read and believed all the gossip within.

➾ After experiencing writer’s block, he broke it by turning his family car around and barricading himself at home for 15 months to write One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Gabriel García Márquez MCQs

1. What is the full name of the author, born March 6, 1928?

A. Gabo Jimenez
B. Gabriel José García Márquez
C. Luis Alejandro Velasco
D. William Faulkner

B. Gabriel José García Márquez
This is his full birth name, though he is often known by his affectionate nickname, Gabo.

2. What is one of the common nicknames Gabriel García Márquez is known by?

A. Gabby
B. Gabito
C. Colonel
D. Maestro

B. Gabito
“Gabito” (or “Gabo”) was a popular and affectionate nickname used for him throughout Latin America.

3. In which Colombian village was Gabriel García Márquez born?

A. Sucre
B. Macondo
C. Bogotá
D. Aracataca

D. Aracataca
He was born in Aracataca, which became the real-life inspiration for the fictional town of Macondo.

4. In which year did Gabriel García Márquez die?

A. 1982
B. 1999
C. 2012
D. 2014

D. 2014
He died of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Mexico City.

5. What was the immediate cause of Gabriel García Márquez’s death?

A. Lymphatic cancer
B. Dementia
C. Pneumonia
D. Heart failure

C. Pneumonia
Though he suffered from cancer and dementia, his death in 2014 was attributed to pneumonia.

6. García Márquez was diagnosed with what type of cancer in 1999?

A. Lung
B. Lymphatic
C. Bone
D. Skin

B. Lymphatic
He was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1999 but recovered following treatment.

7. What was García Márquez reported to be suffering from in 2012?

A. A severe infection
B. Paralysis
C. Dementia
D. Writer’s block

C. Dementia
In 2012, his brother announced that García Márquez was suffering from dementia.

8. What is considered García Márquez’s first serious writing or novella, published in 1955?

A. The Evil Hour
B. Big Mama’s Funeral
C. Leaf Storm (La Hojarasca)
D. The Colonel

C. Leaf Storm (La Hojarasca)
Leaf Storm was his first novella and the first work to introduce the fictional town of Macondo.

9. Which novel, published in 1985, is described as his second most well-known work?

A. The Autumn of the Patriarch
B. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
C. Love in the Time of Cholera
D. Leaf Storm

C. Love in the Time of Cholera
After One Hundred Years of Solitude, this is his most celebrated novel.

10. Who raised García Márquez for the first ten years of his life?

A. His father
B. His mother
C. His maternal grandparents
D. Fidel Castro

C. His maternal grandparents
He was raised by his maternal grandparents, who had a profound influence on his storytelling.

11. García Márquez credited his grandmother with providing the foundation for what aspect of his work?

A. His political views
B. His financial stability
C. His pungent style
D. His love of cinema

C. His pungent style
His grandmother’s “pungent style” of telling fantastic stories matter-of-factly inspired magical realism.

12. The author’s grandfather became the model for what archetype character in his fiction?

A. The Seaman
B. The Dictator
C. The Colonel
D. The Telegraph Operator

C. The Colonel
His grandfather, a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days, became the model for the recurring colonel archetype.

13. What traumatic Colombian civil war did García Márquez’s grandfather participate in?

A. La Violencia
B. The War of a Thousand Days
C. The Cuban Revolution
D. The Spanish Civil War

B. The War of a Thousand Days
His grandfather was a colonel in this devastating civil war, a recurring theme in his novels.

14. The village of Aracataca is the real-life inspiration for what fictional town?

A. Sucre
B. Cartagena
C. Cienaga
D. Macondo

D. Macondo
Macondo, the setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude, is based on his childhood home of Aracataca.

15. What US company established a banana headquarters in Aracataca, leading to massacres?

A. Standard Oil
B. The United Fruit Company
C. Chiquita Brands
D. Wells Fargo

B. The United Fruit Company
The 1928 “Banana Massacre” by this company became a key event in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

16. When did García Márquez first publish short stories?

A. 1955
B. 1967
C. 1947 while a student
D. 1970

C. 1947 while a student
He began his literary career publishing short stories in newspapers while he was a student.

17. After abandoning his higher studies, what profession did García Márquez fully commit to?

A. Film direction
B. Pharmacy
C. Journalism
D. Political activism

C. Journalism
He dropped out of law school to become a journalist, a profession that deeply shaped his writing style.

18. What newspaper column did García Márquez write for El Heraldo in Barranquilla?

A. El Espectador
B. La Hojarasca
C. La Jirafa
D. El Pueblo

C. “La Jirafa”
He wrote a regular column called “La Jirafa” (The Giraffe) under the name “Septimus.”

19. Which literary quality characterized García Márquez’s early journalistic writings?

A. Academic formality
B. Irony and mordant humor
C. Pure naturalism
D. Excessive pathos

B. Irony and mordant humor
His early columns were known for their biting humor and ironic observations.

20. García Márquez preferred to cover what type of stories as a reporter for El Espectador?

A. Editorials
B. Foreign correspondence
C. Fires and crimes
D. Political analysis

C. Fires and crimes
He preferred covering the “police beat” and sensational stories, like fires and crimes.

21. The fabricated rebellion story in Quibdo was staged to protest what?

A. Government corruption
B. The correspondent’s assignment
C. Censorship
D. The price of bananas

B. The correspondent’s assignment
He staged the story out of boredom and frustration with his assignment in the remote town.

22. What did the sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco reveal that embarrassed the Rojas Pinilla government?

A. The storm was fabricated
B. The destroyer carried black market goods
C. The sailor was a spy
D. The storm hit in New Orleans

B. The destroyer carried black market goods
Velasco revealed the shipwreck was due to contraband, not a storm, embarrassing the dictatorship.

23. When was The Tale of A Shipwrecked Sailor first published under García Márquez’s name?

A. 1954
B. 1966
C. 1970
D. 1982

C. 1970
Though written as a newspaper series in 1955, it was first published in book form in 1970.

24. Which of his novels was García Márquez rewriting eleven times while stuck jobless in Paris?

A. Leaf Storm
B. The Evil Hour
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude
D. No One Writes to the Colonel

D. No One Writes to the Colonel
He wrote this novella, a masterpiece of conciseness, during a period of extreme poverty in Paris.

25. What was García Márquez’s first novel focused on the theme of violence?

A. La Hojarasca
B. La Mala Hora (The Evil Hour)
C. El Coronel
D. Cien años de soledad

B. La Mala Hora (The Evil Hour)
This novel was his first to directly confront the theme of *La Violencia*, the political violence in Colombia.

26. What conclusion did García Márquez reach after three years of poverty in Paris?

A. That he required political asylum
B. That he needed a US visa
C. That nobody dies of hunger
D. That he should stop writing

C. That nobody dies of hunger
His experience of extreme poverty in Paris gave him a sense of resilience and this philosophical conclusion.

27. Who was the fiancée and eventual wife of García Márquez, described as having a “beautiful neck”?

A. Luisa Santiaga
B. Pilar Ternera
C. Mercedes Barcha
D. Consuelo

C. Mercedes Barcha
He married Mercedes Barcha, his childhood sweetheart, in 1958.

28. García Márquez finished which short story collection while working in Caracas, Venezuela?

A. No One Writes to the Colonel
B. Big Mama’s Funeral
C. Leaf Storm
D. The Tale of A Shipwrecked Sailor

B. Big Mama’s Funeral
He completed this collection (Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) while living in Venezuela.

29. After the Cuban revolution, García Márquez opened the Bogotá office for what Cuban news agency?

A. El Espectador
B. Momento
C. Prensa Latina
D. Alternativa

C. Prensa Latina
His support for the revolution led him to help establish the Bogotá office for Cuba’s official news agency.

30. García Márquez’s political leanings, since his student days, are described as being what?

A. Liberal
B. Conservative
C. Revolutionary, even communist
D. Federalist

C. Revolutionary, even communist
He was a committed leftist and socialist his entire life, stemming from his student activism.

31. While representing Prensa Latina at the UN, what famous incident did García Márquez witness?

A. Castro’s long speech
B. Khruschev using his shoe as a gavel
C. The signing of a peace treaty
D. An assassination attempt

B. Khruschev using his shoe as a gavel
He was present for the infamous (and possibly apocryphal) incident of Khruschev banging his shoe.

32. García Márquez’s US visa was withdrawn around 1961 due to what reason?

A. Financial debt
B. His political leanings and association with Cuba
C. Criminal activities
D. A dispute with immigration officials

B. His political leanings and association with Cuba
His left-wing politics and friendship with Castro made him a target of the US government.

33. García Márquez traveled through the US Deep South by bus as an homage to which writer?

A. Ben Hecht
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner

D. William Faulkner
He deeply admired Faulkner and traveled through his territory, the American South, by Greyhound bus.

34. What period of intense political violence and repression in Colombia occurred around 1948?

A. The Banana Massacre
B. The War of a Thousand Days
C. La Violencia
D. The Latin Boom

C. La Violencia
“La Violencia” (The Violence) was a brutal ten-year civil war that became a major theme in his work.

35. Who was the famed Mexican novelist with whom García Márquez collaborated on screenplays?

A. Julio Cortázar
B. Jorge Rojas
C. Carlos Fuentes
D. Juan Ramon Jimenez

C. Carlos Fuentes
He formed a close friendship with Fuentes, and they worked together on several film projects in Mexico.

36. What did García Márquez realize he lacked working on film scripts compared to novels?

A. Sufficient money
B. Technical expertise
C. The writer’s complete control over the work
D. Critical acclaim

C. The writer’s complete control over the work
He felt that in filmmaking, the writer’s vision was diluted by the collaborative process.

37. García Márquez experienced a four-year period of difficulty known as what, before writing his masterpiece?

A. Exile
B. Writer’s block
C. Political imprisonment
D. Journalism fatigue

B. Writer’s block
He suffered a severe writer’s block for four years before his breakthrough inspiration for his masterpiece.

38. While driving from Mexico City to Acapulco, García Márquez began planning which masterpiece?

A. The Evil Hour
B. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude
D. Love in the Time of Cholera

C. One Hundred Years of Solitude
He had a sudden flash of inspiration for the novel while on this drive, ending his writer’s block.

39. Approximately how long did García Márquez work on writing One Hundred Years of Solitude?

A. Six months
B. Eighteen months
C. Three years
D. Ten years

B. Eighteen months
He locked himself away for 18 months, writing in a haze of creative energy to complete the novel.

40. In which year was One Hundred Years of Solitude first published in Spanish (Cien años de soledad)?

A. 1961
B. 1967
C. 1970
D. 1982

B. 1967
The novel was an immediate and massive success upon its 1967 publication in Buenos Aires.

41. Which Argentinean writer, alongside Carlos Fuentes, was an early supporter of Cien Años de Soledad?

A. Jorge Luis Borges
B. Julio Cortázar
C. Pablo Neruda
D. Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

B. Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar, a major figure of the “Latin Boom,” was an important early champion of the novel.

42. Who was the translator who rendered One Hundred Years of Solitude into English?

A. William Kennedy
B. Gregory Rabassa
C. Ben Hecht
D. Luisa Santiaga

B. Gregory Rabassa
Rabassa’s 1970 translation was highly acclaimed by García Márquez himself as a work of art.

43. What term describes the rise in popularity of Latin-American writing in the 1960s and 1970s?

A. The New Wave
B. The Latin Boom
C. Modernism
D. Postmodernism

B. The Latin Boom
His novel was a central work of the “Latin Boom,” which brought global attention to Latin American authors.

44. One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered a central work in which literary movement?

A. Postmodernism
B. Naturalism
C. Magical realism
D. Existentialism

C. Magical realism
The novel is the most famous example of magical realism, blending the fantastic with the mundane.

45. In 1973, following the assassination of Salvador Allende, García Márquez co-founded which left-wing magazine?

A. El Espectador
B. Prensa Latina
C. Alternativa
D. Momento

C. Alternativa
He co-founded this political magazine in Colombia in response to the coup in Chile.

46. What novel, published in 1975, focused on the theme of dictatorship and power?

A. Love in the Time of Cholera
B. The Autumn of the Patriarch
C. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
D. The Evil Hour

B. The Autumn of the Patriarch
This dense, experimental novel is a portrait of an archetypal Caribbean dictator, isolated by absolute power.

47. García Márquez established a personal relationship with which Cuban leader?

A. Che Guevara
B. Fidel Castro
C. Omar Torrijos
D. Salvador Allende

B. Fidel Castro
His controversial and long-standing friendship with Fidel Castro often drew criticism from the West.

48. In which year was García Márquez awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. 1967
B. 1970
C. 1981
D. 1982

D. 1982
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his novels and short stories, which combined the fantastic and realistic.

49. García Márquez claimed that the atmosphere of his books is the atmosphere of what stage of life?

A. Old age
B. Journalism
C. Childhood
D. Adulthood

C. Childhood
He stated that his style was based on his grandmother’s way of telling stories, rooted in his childhood.

50. In his Nobel lecture, García Márquez expressed belief in the possibility of creating what?

A. Scientific advancement
B. Eternal solitude
C. The opposite utopia
D. Universal warfare

C. The opposite utopia
He concluded his lecture with a powerful call for a “new and sweeping utopia of life.”

Chronicle of a Death Foretold MCQs

1. What is the date on which Santiago Nasar got up to wait for the bishop?

A. Saturday morning
B. Sunday morning
C. Monday morning
D. Tuesday morning

C. Monday morning.
Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the bishop on the distressing Monday of his death.

2. What did Santiago Nasar often dream about, according to his mother?

A. Flying machines
B. Running from dogs
C. Timber trees
D. Swimming fish

C. Timber trees.
Plácida Linero, Santiago’s mother, recalled that her son was “always dreaming about trees” before his death.

3. How did Santiago Nasar interpret his headache that morning?

A. Severe cold
B. Wedding revels’ result
C. Ominous sign
D. Weather change

B. Wedding revels’ result.
He believed his poor sleep and headache were the natural result of the late wedding festivities the night before.

4. What was Santiago Nasar’s usual attire for special occasions?

A. Khaki outfit
B. Military uniform
C. White linen suit
D. Casual pants

C. White linen suit.
For special occasions, like the bishop’s visit, he wore a white linen shirt and pants that were unstarched.

5. Where did Santiago Nasar put the bullets for his .357 Magnum?

A. Gun cabinet
B. Pillowcase
C. Night table drawer
D. Hidden vault

C. Night table drawer.
Before leaving the house, he took the bullets out of the weapon and placed them securely in the night table drawer.

6. What part of the house was destroyed by a bullet from a discharged pistol years before?

A. Rear door
B. Church saint
C. Kitchen wall
D. Balcony railing

B. Church saint.
A pistol went off, and the bullet, passing through two houses, turned a life-size saint in the church to plaster dust.

7. What did Santiago’s mother believe dreams about birds signified?

A. Bad luck
B. Good health
C. Upcoming sadness
D. Wealth increase

B. Good health.
When Santiago told her about his dream, his mother dismissively assured him that birds symbolized good health.

8. What physical feature of his father did Santiago Nasar inherit?

A. Thin lips
B. Arab eyelids
C. Prominent nose
D. Light complexion

B. Arab eyelids.
The narrator remembers Santiago as slim and pale, having inherited his father’s specific Arab eyelids and curly hair.

9. What quality did Santiago Nasar’s father teach him, along with valour?

A. Humility
B. Prudence
C. Aggression
D. Hunting skills

B. Prudence.
From his father, Santiago learned firearm manipulation, love for horses, and the “good arts of valor and prudence”.

10. What language did Santiago and his father speak when they were alone?

A. Latin
B. Spanish
C. Arabic
D. Papiamento

C. Arabic.
They spoke Arabic to each other, ensuring Plácida Linero did not feel excluded from their private conversations.

11. What was Victoria Guzmán, the cook, preparing for lunch that Monday?

A. Chicken stew
B. Roast hog
C. Three rabbits
D. Vegetable soup

C. Three rabbits.
When Santiago Nasar entered the kitchen, Victoria Guzmán was surrounded by dogs, quartering three rabbits for lunch.

12. What did Divina Flor mix with Santiago Nasar’s morning coffee?

A. Honey
B. Salt
C. Cane liquor
D. Syrup

C. Cane liquor.
Divina Flor served Santiago Nasar a mug of mountain coffee that contained a shot of cane liquor.

13. What did Victoria Guzmán use to antagonise Santiago during breakfast?

A. Hot sauce
B. Rabbit guts
C. Sour milk
D. Dead mice

B. Rabbit guts.
She continued feeding the dogs with the steaming rabbit guts, specifically to embitter Santiago Nasar’s breakfast.

14. What type of animal cages were in the dining room?

A. Dogs
B. Birds
C. Cats
D. Turtles

B. Birds.
Divina Flor went ahead of Santiago, navigating past the “cages of sleeping birds” that were located in the dining room.

15. What name did the investigating judge give to the front door of Santiago’s house?

A. The Fatal Door
B. Death’s Entrance
C. The Arab’s Gate
D. The White Door

A. The Fatal Door.
The investigating judge cited the door to the square several times in his report, using the title: “The Fatal Door”.

16. What was Victoria Guzmán’s true, deep motivation for not warning Santiago?

A. Wanted him killed
B. She disliked him
C. Total forgetfulness
D. Too busy cooking

A. Wanted him killed.
Divina Flor confessed later that Victoria Guzmán didn’t warn Santiago because “in the depths of her heart she wanted them to kill him”.

17. What warning was shoved under the front door?

A. Threatening letter
B. Police summons
C. An envelope
D. A flower

C. An envelope.
An unidentified person had shoved an envelope under the door, which contained details of the plot to kill Santiago.

18. Where were the Vicario twins waiting for Santiago Nasar?

A. Dockside
B. Clotilde Armenta’s shop
C. Town hall
D. Church steps

B. Clotilde Armenta’s shop.
The twins were waiting for Santiago in Clotilde Armenta’s milk shop, the only establishment open on the square.

19. How did the Vicario twins carry their knives when waiting?

A. In their pockets
B. Wrapped in newspapers
C. On their belts
D. Hidden in sleeves

B. Wrapped in newspapers.
They slept clutching the knives, which were wrapped in rolled-up newspapers, against their chests in the milk shop.

20. What reason did Clotilde Armenta give for asking the twins to delay?

A. Police coming
B. Respect for the bishop
C. Not enough time
D. Fear of Arabs

B. Respect for the bishop.
She asked them to leave Santiago for later, “if only out of respect for his grace the bishop”.

21. What was the bishop’s favourite dish that villagers offered him?

A. Roasted turkey
B. Pig intestines
C. Cockscomb soup
D. Goat stew

C. Cockscomb soup.
The villagers brought baskets of well-fattened roosters as gifts because cockscomb soup was his favorite.

22. What did the bishop do to bless the crowd as his boat passed by?

A. Threw flowers
B. Made sign of cross
C. Gave a sermon
D. Blew a kiss

B. Made sign of cross.
The bishop mechanically made the sign of the cross in the air opposite the crowd without stopping the boat.

23. Who was Santiago Nasar engaged to marry later that year?

A. Flora Miguel
B. Divina Flor
C. Pura Vicario
D. Maria Cervantes

A. Flora Miguel.
The narrator mentions that Flora Miguel had the good fortune to have Santiago Nasar on Christmas of that year.

24. What was Mayor Don Lázaro Aponte’s profession?

A. Doctor
B. Priest
C. Colonel
D. Judge

C. Colonel.
Don Lázaro Aponte, the town mayor for eleven years, was a retired colonel from the academy.

25. What was the shocking reason Angela Vicario was returned to her parents?

A. She was ill
B. Not a virgin
C. Too drunk
D. She ran away

B. Not a virgin.
Angela Vicario’s husband discovered that she wasn’t a virgin, leading him to return her immediately.

26. What was the name of the man who married, then returned, Angela Vicario?

A. Pedro Vicario
B. Bayardo San Roman
C. Santiago Nasar
D. Ibrahim Nasar

B. Bayardo San Roman.
Bayardo San Roman arrived six months before the wedding and was the man who returned the bride.

27. What physical characteristic of Bayardo San Roman caused the narrator’s mother fear?

A. His height
B. His golden eyes
C. His soft voice
D. His strong build

B. His golden eyes.
The mother confessed that Bayardo’s “golden eyes had caused the shudder of a fear” in her, reminding her of the devil.

28. What object was the major attraction being raffled at the charity bazaar?

A. Large painting
B. Music box
C. Silver ring
D. Hunting rifle

B. Music box.
Angela Vicario was in charge of the raffle for a music box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

29. What was the profession of Angela Vicario’s blind father?

A. Butcher
B. Goldsmith
C. Soldier
D. Farmer

B. Goldsmith.
Her father, Poncio Vicario, was a poor man’s goldsmith who lost his sight due to the fine detail of his work.

30. How long after buying the widower Xius’s farmhouse did Bayardo San Roman pay for it?

A. Five thousand
B. Ten thousand
C. One hundred
D. Fifty thousand

B. Ten thousand.
Bayardo San Roman insisted on buying the house for ten thousand pesos, paid immediately in cash.

31. How long after selling the house did the widower Xius die?

A. Three weeks
B. Two months
C. One year
D. Five years

B. Two months.
The widower Xius died two months after selling the house, supposedly due to heartbreak.

32. What common kitchen supply was located in the Vicario’s pigsty?

A. Water hose
B. Sacrificial stone
C. Large oven
D. Butcher’s block

B. Sacrificial stone.
The pigsty, which was a source of family income, included a sacrificial stone and a disembowelling table.

33. What did Angela Vicario’s mother teach her children to do to slow down seafarers?

A. Speak loudly
B. Comb hair at night
C. Wear black clothes
D. Stay awake late

B. Comb hair at night.
Her mother often admonished them not to comb their hair at night, as it would “slow down seafarers”.

34. Who was the most elegant and tender woman the narrator ever knew?

A. Angela Vicario
B. Plácida Linero
C. Maria Cervantes
D. Clotilde Armenta

C. María Cervantes.
Maria Alejandrina Cervantes, who ran the house of mercy, was remembered as the most elegant and tender woman.

35. What did the Vicario twins initially use to commit the murder?

A. Saw and axe
B. Knives for slaughter
C. Shotgun and rifle
D. Hunting spear

B. Knives for slaughter.
After Angela named Santiago, the twins went to the pigsty and picked out two knives, one for quartering and one for trimming.

36. How many people did the Vicario brothers tell about their intentions to kill Santiago Nasar at the market?

A. Three
B. Twelve
C. Twenty-two
D. None

C. Twenty-two.
Twenty-two people declared to the investigator that they had heard everything the brothers said at the meat market.

37. What type of animals did the Vicario brothers name after flowers?

A. Horses
B. Dogs
C. Hogs
D. Birds

C. Hogs.
The butchers recalled that the Vicario brothers sacrificed hogs they raised, calling them the names of flowers.

38. What was the name of the policeman who was told about the murder plot but died later?

A. Pablo Vicario
B. Leandro Pornoy
C. Faustino Santos
D. Colonel Aponte

B. Leandro Pornoy.
The butcher Faustino Santos reported the threat to Officer Leandro Pornoy, who was gored by a bull the following year.

39. What did Pedro Vicario use to shave with at Clotilde Armenta’s store?

A. Safety razor
B. Butcher knife
C. Straight edge
D. New scissors

B. Butcher knife.
Pedro Vicario shaved with his butcher knife, a habit he learned in the army, which Clotilde saw as machismo.

40. How long did the Vicario twins spend in jail awaiting trial after the crime?

A. One month
B. Three years
C. Five years
D. Ten years

B. Three years.
They spent three years awaiting trial in the panopticon in Riohacha because they could not afford bail.

41. What type of illness did Pedro Vicario suffer from after his military service?

A. Fever
B. Blennorrhea
C. Hepatitis
D. Cholera

B. Blennorrhea.
Pedro Vicario came back from the army with a case of sergeant’s blennorrhea that resisted medical treatment.

42. Who was the only person who perceived a glimmer of truth in Pablo Vicario’s threat at the market?

A. Colonel Aponte
B. Faustino Santos
C. Clotilde Armenta
D. Judge Arcadio

B. Faustino Santos.
Faustino Santos, a butcher friend, was the only one who felt a “glimmer of truth” in Pablo Vicario’s stated intention.

43. Who ordered Father Amador to perform the illegal autopsy?

A. Plácida Linero
B. Investigating Judge
C. Mayor Aponte
D. Dr. Iguarán

C. Mayor Aponte.
Colonel Aponte, the mayor, ordered Father Amador to perform the autopsy on Santiago Nasar because the body was decomposing quickly.

44. How many of the many knife wounds were determined to be fatal?

A. Five
B. Seven
C. Ten
D. Twenty

B. Seven.
Father Amador’s report concluded that seven of the multiple knife wounds inflicted on Santiago Nasar were fatal.

45. What did Father Amador attribute Santiago Nasar’s large liver size to?

A. Poorly cured hepatitis
B. Excessive drinking
C. Arab genetics
D. Too much exercise

A. Poorly cured hepatitis.
Father Amador attributed Santiago Nasar’s liver hypertrophy to a poorly cured case of hepatitis he had at age twelve.

46. What did Dr. Dionisio Iguarán say caused the naturally larger livers of “tropical people?”

A. Diet choices
B. Greenhorn Galician Spaniards
C. Alcohol consumption
D. Constant humidity

B. Greenhorn Galician Spaniards.
Dr. Iguarán argued that tropical people naturally have larger livers than “greenhorn Galician Spaniards,” correcting Father Amador’s report.

47. What did Bayardo San Roman suffer from when found alone in the farmhouse?

A. Ethylic intoxication
B. Knife wounds
C. Extreme hunger
D. Heart failure

A. Ethyl intoxication.
Dr. Dionisio Iguarán determined that Bayardo San Roman was suffering from the “last stages of ethylic intoxication” (severe alcohol poisoning).

48. How did Bayardo San Roman’s family approach the farmhouse to retrieve him?

A. By carriage
B. Barefoot, wailing
C. With police
D. Secretly at night

B. Barefoot, wailing.
/>His mother and sisters arrived locked in mourning, took off their shoes, and walked barefoot, wailing up to the house.

49. How many letters did Angela Vicario write to Bayardo San Roman over seventeen years?

A. Six
B. Twelve
C. Two thousand
D. Twenty

C. Two thousand.
Bayardo San Roman brought back a suitcase containing almost 2,000 letters that Angela had written to him.

50. What physical condition was Santiago Nasar in when he finally reached his kitchen door?

A. Singing joyfully
B. Viscera hanging out
C. Bleeding lightly
D. Resting on the ground

B. Viscera hanging out.
Mortally wounded, he walked home holding his hanging intestines in his hands before falling on his face in the kitchen.

Brief Overview

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It is a work of Magic Realism that meticulously reconstructs a publicly known murder in a Colombian town.

The novel details the final hours of Santiago Nasar, who is killed to restore the honor of the Vicario family. The conflict begins when Bayardo San Roman sends his new wife, Angela Vicario, home immediately after their wedding because she was not a virgin. Angela names Santiago Nasar as the man responsible.

The murder was planned openly and announced publicly. Many people in the town knew the twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo Vicario, were waiting with their knives. It appeared the twins secretly hoped someone would stop them, but the entire town failed to warn Santiago Nasar clearly.

Santiago was awake early to greet the bishop’s boat, which did not stop in the town. He finally learned of the danger just moments before the attack. He ran home, but his mother, Plácida Linero, mistakenly locked the front door, thinking he was already safe inside.

The twins caught him outside and stabbed him repeatedly. Santiago died, confused, after walking into his kitchen holding his own intestines. Years later, Angela Vicario fell deeply in love with Bayardo San Roman. She wrote him weekly letters for seventeen years, and Bayardo finally returned, bringing all her unopened letters.