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Literature Trivia

Who founded the village of Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

on Feb 7, 2025

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Jose Aureliano Buendia
Aureliano Segundo Benitez
Jose Arcadio Buendia
Colonel Aureliano Buendia

Jose Arcadio Buendia. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel prize winning novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Jose Arcadio Buendia founded Macondo by a stream.

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In parts of "Slaughterhouse-Five", Billy Pilgrim is taken to what planet?

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The Three Witches. In "Macbeth", the Three Witches resemble the Fates, found in Greek and Norse mythology, since they too determine the course of human lives.