1.How old was Gabriel García Márquez when he died?
a) 68
b) 86
c) 78
d) 87
2.What was the cause of death?
a) old age
b) a lung infection
c) a heart attack
d) a stroke
3.For how many days will Colombia be mourning?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 2
4.What did the Colombian government say Márquez changed?
a) readers' lives
b) literature
c) politics
d) world events
5.What was the style of writing Márquez helped to develop?
a) mystic magical
b) mystic mysticism
c) magical realism
d) magical relativism
6.What did Barack Obama say the world had lost?
a) a bookworm
b) a visionary
c) direction
d) literature
7.What did Bill Clinton say Márquez captured?
a) laughter and tears
b) love and hope
c) despair and hurt
d) pain and joy
8.From when did Márquez say he started telling stories?
a) an early age
b) after he read Don Quixote
c) at the age of 8
d) from junior high school
9.Who told Márquez when he started storytelling?
a) his literature teacher
b) his wife
c) his family
d) his first best friend
10.Who said Márquez's novels will continue to get new readers?
a) Jorge Luis Borges
b) Mario Vargas Llosa
c) Isabel Allende
d) Ernesto Sabato