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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 orders his wife to remove her chastity pants. (10[1])This family (10[1])adopts a girl who carries a sack of (10[1])her parents’ bones (10[2])and tries to cure (10[1])her habit of eating damp earth. (10[1])A member of this family unknowingly commits incest (10[1])with his aunt and conceives a child (10[1])with a pig’s tail who is later eaten by ants. (10[1])In the opening of one novel, a member of this family recalls seeing ice for the first time (-5[1])with his father, the founder of Macondo. For 10 points, José Arcadio and Aureliano are part of what central family of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Buendía [accept Aureliano Buendía or José Arcadio Buendía or Rebeca Buendía or Amaranta Buendía]
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Oscar O'FlanaganImperial ACambridge C5210
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