Nick Joaquin's Famous Works

In the world of journalism, Nick Joaquin was also known as _________.

• Quijano de Batangas

• Quiajano de Paco

• Quijano de Pogi

• Quijano de Manila

Among the following, what was not advised by the servant girl in order for the girls to see their future husband?

• Say an incantation
• Light a candle
• Wait for twilight
• Close one's eyes

According to Dona Agueda, one might see who if not the girl's future husband?

• devil
• enemy
• first love
• future

According to Don Badoy, who would one see if not a man's future wife?

• the devil
• a witch
• a friend
• no one

Don Badoy describe her wife as:

• a beautiful witch that tortured him and drank his youthful exuberance
• a beautiful witch who tortured him, ate his heart, and drank his blood
• a beautiful witch who enchanted his mind and soul

TRUE or FALSE: Dona Agueda died at the end of the story.

• True
• False

The story of how a young woman reconciles the contradictions of her past forges her own identity. What was her name in the story?

• Connie Escobar

• Melchora Andaya

• Karen Esposa

• Candida Gaspar

True or false: Macho, Connie's haciendero husband, turns out to be the former lover of her mother.

• True

• False

In the story "The Woman Who Had Two Novels" who said this: "For it now seemed inevitable that she should have come - to close a circle, to end a history... I have the strongest feeling it was Father she was looking for, all this time."

• Macho Escobar

• Pepe Monson

• Esteban Borromeo

• Antonio Conejos

“Like all magians, he was obsessed by a fear of death and the idea of immortality; but all the lore he had accumulated he found powerless to wrest the secret from life, though he had labored over countless experiments…” who was the main character in this story?

• Mateo the Wizard

• Mateo the Maestro

• St. Sylvestre

• St. Janus