Character Relations
Colonel Aureliano Buendia's sons all bore a mark of their parentage. What was this mark?
What is a cross of ashes on their forehead?
Pietro Crespi is the ghost that hunts down the Buendias
What is False. The correct answer is who is Prudencio Aguilar.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's use of magical realism in the novel stems from what?
What are his childhood experiences?
When outsiders ventured to Macondo during their quarantine days, they were asked to do this to indicate they were healthy
What is ring their bells?
The place where coronavirus supposedly originated
What is China?
In the novel, this character is followed around by yellow butterflies?
Who is Mauricio Babilonia?
The plague of insomnia in the novel can be compared to the current Covid-19 situation in our nation
What is True. There are many similar elements between these two occurrences, including the fact that people of any age can get the virus, it can be passed along orally and can lay dormant on food and drink and once it enters a household it is almost impossible to escape it.
This event occurs as a result of Amaranta's prayers to stop this specific person from killing Rebeca
What is the death of Remedies Moscote?
Similar to the symptoms of the coronavirus, those who were inflicted with the insomnia plague experienced
What is loss of notion, awareness and memory?
What state is currently suffering the most from the virus?
What is New York
Whose killing by Jose Arcadia Buendia prompts the Buendia's to leave their town and co-found Macondo?
Who is Prudencio Aguilar?
According to the Buendia family tradition, babies born of incestuous relationships will have wings like bats
What is False. The correct answer is what is they will have tails like pigs.
On page 196 Garcia Marquez describes, "they were awakened by a torrent of [these] who were ready to eat them alive"
What are carnivorous ants?
The current practice that people in our nation are supposed to be practicing that is similar to the order given to the people of Macondo during the insomnia plague
What is social distancing?
The introduction of this to the town of Macondo provides an economic spark for its people
What is the railroad?
What is the name of the first magistrate to come to Macondo, whose daughter marries Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
Who is Don Apolinar Moscote?
Current COVID-19 patients symptoms are comparable to the symptoms of the insomnia plague from the novel
What is False? Those infected by the insomnia plague faced loss of notion and their sense of awareness, and further a loss of their memory
Fernanda del Carpio carries around a calendar that denotes how many specific days that she can have interact in sexual intercourse with her partner
What is 42?
When hiding from the government officials, Jose Arcadio Segundo can be found where
What is in Melquiades old room at the Buendia house?
The marriage of whom is almost broken up when the man allows another woman to dress up as the Queen of Madagascar and takes her picture.
Who is Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda del Carpio?
What is true?
Garcia Marquez is referring to what Colombian historical event when he states, "It was as if the machine guns had been loaded with caps, because their panting rattle could be heard and their incandescent spitting could be seen..." (311).
What is The Violence?
Similar to the order of us having to wear masks in order to stop the spread of the virus, in order to help slow the effects of the plague, Aureliano implements what action
The various dictatorships that come into power throughout the novel mirror dictatorships that have previously ruled what places
What are Nicaragua, Panama and Cuba