The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quizzes

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quiz 1

1 When was the story originally published?
1935

2001

1968

1972
2 When was the story translated into English?
2002

1968

1972

1998
3 Where is Gabriel Garcia Marquez from?
Colombia

Honduras

Argentina

Chile
4 What is Marquez's most famous work?
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

Love in the Time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
5 What literary style is Marquez known for?
Magical realism

Memoir

Absurdism

Modernism
6 Which of these best describes the title of the story?
Paradox

Allusion

Epithet

Metaphor
7 From what perspective is the short story written?
Second person

Third-person limited

First person

Third-person omniscient
8 What is the opening image of the story?
The drowned man's funeral

Flowers on the cliffs

Villagers carrying the drowned man

Children playing with a corpse
9 Who cleans the drowned man?
The women of the village

The men of the village

The doctor of the village

The children of the village
10 Why do the villagers immediately know the drowned man is a stranger?
He is not standing among them.

He is wearing different clothing.

Somebody recognizes him from a neighboring town.

He has a tattoo on his arm.
11 What do the men of the village usually do at night?
Build homes

Sleep

Sing songs

Fish
12 Who names the drowned man?
Someone from a neighboring village

A young village woman

An older village woman

A child
13 What do the villagers call the drowned man?
Charlie

Pablo

Rocco

Esteban
14 Which of these do the villagers not imagine regarding the drowned man?
He would have always had a full bowl of lemons on his kitchen table.

He would have had the happiest wife.

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

He would have had the largest house.
15 Why do the women sew new clothes for the drowned man?
They want to dress him in traditional funeral wear.

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

The drowned man was naked when he washed ashore.

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

An enemy ship

A shark

A buoy
17 To which of these mythological figures from antiquity does the story allude?
The sirens

Scilla

Pegasus

Charybdis
18 To which of these figures from the English Renaissance does the story allude?
William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

Sir Walter Raleigh

Ben Jonson
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.

It means they can claim him as their own.

They can continue searching for his family.
20 Which of these does the narrator use to describe the village?
Desert-like

Acrid

Harmonious

Vibrant
21 What constitutes the drowned man's funeral?
Singing mournful songs

Throwing him from the cliffs

Burying him in the sand

Marching him through town
22 Why do the villagers send the drowned man away without anchor?
So he will drift at sea forever

So someone else will find him

So he can come back to them

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

Tattoo his skin

Assign him family members

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

A fish

A ship captain

A small child
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

what might this suggest about the villagers values?

The story "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel García Márquez suggests that the villagers value physical appearance and material possessions. When the body of a handsome and well-dressed man washes up on their shore, the villagers...

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What are the character traits of Esteban

Esteban is obsessive, violent, and materialistic. He devotes his life to his business and political careers, determined first to become rich and then to become powerful.

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Why aren't the villagers repulsed by the corpse?

The dead man would been a very large, strong, and handsome fellow in life- he made a beautiful corpse!

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