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A fake doctor gets a member of this family to take sugar pills to signal participation in a plot to liquidate the Conservative regime. On the night after killing a man who had mocked him for not consummating his marriage, one member of this family (10[1])orders his wife to remove her chastity pants. This family adopts a girl who carries a sack of her parents’ bones (10[2])and tries (10[1])to cure her habit of eating damp earth. A member of this family unknowingly commits incest with his aunt and conceives a child with a pig’s tail who is later eaten by ants. In the opening of one novel, a member of this family recalls seeing ice for (10[1])the first time with his father, the founder of Macondo. For 10 points, José Arcadio and Aureliano are part of what central (10[2])family of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Buendía [accept Aureliano Buendía or José Arcadio Buendía or Rebeca Buendía or Amaranta Buendía]
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Aditya ShivaswamyJohns Hopkins ARutgers A4410
Jack RadoColumbia APenn B6510
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