The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quizzes

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Quiz 1

1 When was the story originally published?
1968

1972

1935

2001
2 When was the story translated into English?
1998

1968

2002

1972
3 Where is Gabriel Garcia Marquez from?
Chile

Honduras

Argentina

Colombia
4 What is Marquez's most famous work?
One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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

Memoir

Absurdism

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

Paradox

Allusion

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

First person

Third-person omniscient

Third-person limited
8 What is the opening image of the story?
Flowers on the cliffs

Children playing with a corpse

Villagers carrying the drowned man

The drowned man's funeral
9 Who cleans the drowned man?
The doctor of the village

The women of the village

The children of the village

The men 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?
Fish

Sleep

Build homes

Sing songs
12 Who names the drowned man?
An older village woman

A young village woman

Someone from a neighboring village

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

Rocco

Pablo

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

He would have been able to catch fish just by calling their names.
15 Why do the women sew new clothes for the drowned man?
None of the village men's clothes will fit him.

They want to dress him in traditional funeral wear.

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 shark

A buoy

An enemy ship

A mine
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?
Sir Walter Raleigh

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare

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.

It means they can claim him as their own.

They can continue searching for his family.

They can use him as payment of their debts.
20 Which of these does the narrator use to describe the village?
Vibrant

Harmonious

Desert-like

Acrid
21 What constitutes the drowned man's funeral?
Marching him through town

Singing mournful songs

Throwing him from the cliffs

Burying him in the sand
22 Why do the villagers send the drowned man away without anchor?
So someone else will find him

So he can come back to them

So he will drift at sea forever

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

Tattoo his skin

Find his village of origin

Paint his nails
24 Whom do the villagers imagine will see their village from afar in the future?
A small child

A ship captain

A fish

The drowned man
25 Which of these things do the villagers not do in the wake of the drowned man's funeral?
Plant flowers on the cliffs

Abandon the cliffs for the shore

Paint their houses bright colors

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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