The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quizzes

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quiz 1

1 When was the story originally published?

1972

1935

1968

2001
2 When was the story translated into English?

2002

1998

1968

1972
3 Where is Gabriel Garcia Marquez from?

Argentina

Chile

Colombia

Honduras
4 What is Marquez's most famous work?

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera
5 What literary style is Marquez known for?

Magical realism

Absurdism

Modernism

Memoir
6 Which of these best describes the title of the story?

Metaphor

Epithet

Allusion

Paradox
7 From what perspective is the short story written?

Third-person omniscient

Third-person limited

First person

Second person
8 What is the opening image of the story?

Villagers carrying the drowned man

Children playing with a corpse

The drowned man's funeral

Flowers on the cliffs
9 Who cleans the drowned man?

The doctor of the village

The children of the village

The men of the village

The women of the village
10 Why do the villagers immediately know the drowned man is a stranger?

He is not standing among them.

He has a tattoo on his arm.

Somebody recognizes him from a neighboring town.

He is wearing different clothing.
11 What do the men of the village usually do at night?

Build homes

Fish

Sleep

Sing songs
12 Who names the drowned man?

An older village woman

A child

Someone from a neighboring village

A young village woman
13 What do the villagers call the drowned man?

Pablo

Rocco

Charlie

Esteban
14 Which of these do the villagers not imagine regarding the drowned man?

He would have been able to catch fish just by calling their names.

He would have had the largest house.

He would have always had a full bowl of lemons on his kitchen table.

He would have had the happiest wife.
15 Why do the women sew new clothes for the drowned man?

They want to dress him in traditional funeral wear.

The drowned man was naked when he washed ashore.

None of the village men's clothes will fit him.

They want him to have the nicest clothes out of anyone.
16 What do the children originally think the drowned man is?

A mine

A buoy

A shark

An enemy ship
17 To which of these mythological figures from antiquity does the story allude?

Pegasus

Charybdis

The sirens

Scilla
18 To which of these figures from the English Renaissance does the story allude?

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare

Sir Walter Raleigh

Christopher Marlowe
19 Why are the women happy when they men confirm that the drowned man is not from a neighboring village?

They no longer have to care for him.

They can use him as payment of their debts.

They can continue searching for his family.

It means they can claim him as their own.
20 Which of these does the narrator use to describe the village?

Acrid

Vibrant

Harmonious

Desert-like
21 What constitutes the drowned man's funeral?

Throwing him from the cliffs

Singing mournful songs

Burying him in the sand

Marching him through town
22 Why do the villagers send the drowned man away without anchor?

So he can come back to them

So he will drift at sea forever

So someone else will find him

So he will always see the light
23 What do the villagers do for the drowned man just before his funeral?

Tattoo his skin

Paint his nails

Assign him family members

Find his village of origin
24 Whom do the villagers imagine will see their village from afar in the future?

A ship captain

The drowned man

A small child

A fish
25 Which of these things do the villagers not do in the wake of the drowned man's funeral?

Plant flowers on the cliffs

Paint their houses bright colors

Abandon the cliffs for the shore

Build larger homes

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