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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Type

Novel

Published

1967

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3 with answers

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AP LiteratureAQACommon CoreIB Language & Literature

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Who is the founding patriarch that establishes the fictional town of Macondo at the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

AAureliano Buendía
BJosé Arcadio Buendía
CColonel Aureliano Buendía
DÚrsula Iguarán

Rationale

José Arcadio Buendía leads a group of settlers through the jungle to create the isolated town of Macondo, which becomes the backdrop for the Buendía family's multigenerational story.

Who is the founding patriarch that establishes the fictional town of Macondo at the start of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

AAureliano Buendía
BJosé Arcadio Buendía
CColonel Aureliano Buendía
DÚrsula Iguarán

Rationale

José Arcadio Buendía leads a group of settlers through the jungle to create the town of Macondo, which becomes the central setting for the novel and the home of the Buendía family over seven generations.

Who is the founding patriarch that establishes the fictional town of Macondo at the start of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

AAureliano Buendía
BJosé Arcadio Buendía
CColonel Aureliano Buendía
DÚrsula Iguarán

Rationale

José Arcadio Buendía leads a group of settlers through the jungle to found the secluded town of Macondo, which becomes the backdrop for the Buendía family's saga that spans seven generations.

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