One Hundred Years of Solitude Quiz

What year did Gabriel García Márquez win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

• 1982

• 1990

• 1965

• 1975

What is the main literary genre of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Romance

• Magical Realism

Where did Gabriel García Márquez grow up?

• Colombia

• Mexico

• Acapulco

• Venezuela

What is the name of the fictional village in the novel?

• Venezuela

• Acapulco

• Macondo

• Aracataca

What historical event is mirrored in the novel's storyline?

• Banana Massacre

• French Revolution

• American Civil War

• World War II

What is the main inspiration for the fictional village of Macondo?

• Acapulco

• Venezuela

• Aracataca

• Mexico

What is the main theme of the novel?

• Globe-trotting Adventures

• Political Intrigue

• Civil Strife

• Love and Happiness

What is the significance of the American fruit company in the novel?

• It brings prosperity to the village

• It causes a massacre of workers

• It introduces new technology

• It establishes peace in the region

What is the author's outlook influenced by?

• Autocratic Mexico

• Superstition

• Thousand Days War

• Conservative political parties

What does Gabriel García Márquez affirm in his Nobel Lecture?

• The possibility of building a better world

• The futility of love and happiness

• The inevitability of civil strife

• The condemnation of races to solitude