Pablo Neruda - Quiz
Pablo Neruda
  • 1. Which country was Pablo Neruda from?
A) Spain
B) Argentina
C) Mexico
D) Chile
  • 2. In which year did Pablo Neruda win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1985
B) 1999
C) 1971
D) 1960
  • 3. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work of poetry?
A) Crepusculario
B) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
C) The Book of Questions
D) Residence on Earth
  • 4. What was the title of Neruda's memoir published posthumously in 1974?
A) The Buried Mirror
B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
C) Confieso que he vivido
D) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • 5. What was Neruda's occupation outside of writing?
A) Pilot
B) Surgeon
C) Farmer
D) Diplomat
  • 6. Which major literary movement was Neruda associated with?
A) Realism
B) Romanticism
C) Surrealism
D) Naturalism
  • 7. What inspired Neruda to write a collection of poems about the sea?
A) A bet he made
B) His love for the ocean
C) A dream he had
D) A dare from a friend
  • 8. What year was Pablo Neruda born in?
A) 1920
B) 1904
C) 1899
D) 1915
  • 9. Which city in Spain did Neruda serve as a consul?
A) Seville
B) Valencia
C) Madrid
D) Barcelona
  • 10. What was Pablo Neruda's birth name?
A) Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
B) Jan Neruda
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Pablo Neruda
  • 11. In which year did Pablo Neruda publish his first work?
A) 1917
B) 1926
C) 1923
D) 1921
  • 12. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work?
A) Entusiasmo y perseverancia
B) El habitante y su esperanza
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Crepusculario
  • 13. Which Nobel Prize-winning poet encouraged Neruda's literary pursuits?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Eduardo Barrios
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Harold Bloom
  • 14. What was controversial about 'Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada'?
A) Its eroticism
B) Its political content
C) Its surrealist style
D) Its autobiographical nature
  • 15. Which city did Neruda move to at the age of 16 to study French?
A) Maihue
B) Temuco
C) Parral
D) Santiago
  • 16. Which publisher was the most important in Chile during Neruda's early career?
A) Don Carlos George Nascimento
B) Eduardo Barrios
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 17. What was the name of Neruda's first wife?
A) Maruca
B) Rosa Neftalí
C) Aurelia Tolrà
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 18. Which country did Neruda serve as a consul in 1927?
A) Java
B) Ceylon
C) Burma
D) Chile
  • 19. What is the name of the collection that includes many of Neruda's surrealist poems?
A) Tentativa del hombre infinito
B) Residencia en la Tierra
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Crepusculario
  • 20. What was the main theme of Neruda's poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) Nature and beauty
B) Corruption and exploitation by corporations
C) Political activism
D) Love and passion
  • 21. Which company did Neruda criticize in his poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) Ford Motors
B) Coca-Cola
C) British East India Company
D) United Fruit Company
  • 22. What political ideology did Neruda promote through his writings?
A) Communism
B) Fascism
C) Socialism
D) Liberalism
  • 23. Who called Neruda 'the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language'?
A) Harold Bloom
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Eduardo Barrios
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 24. What was the name of the stadium where Neruda read to 70,000 people?
A) Chile National Stadium
B) Estadio Nacional
C) Maule Stadium
D) Santiago Stadium
  • 25. Which country's Nobel Prize did Neruda win in 1971?
A) Peace
B) Physics
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
  • 26. What was the name of Neruda's half-brother?
A) Carlos
B) Rodolfo
C) Salvador
D) Gabriel
  • 27. What was the name of Neruda's half-sister?
A) Maruca
B) Aurelia
C) Rosa
D) Laura Herminia 'Laurita'
  • 28. What was the name of the poet after whom Neruda is thought to have derived his pen name?
A) Eduardo Barrios
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Jan Neruda
D) Harold Bloom
  • 29. What was the title of Neruda's novel published in 1926?
A) El habitante y su esperanza
B) Crepusculario
C) Residencia en la Tierra
D) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
  • 30. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1923?
A) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
B) Crepusculario
C) Residencia en la Tierra
D) Tentativa del hombre infinito
  • 31. Which city did Neruda work in after Batavia?
A) Colombo
B) Temuco
C) Rangoon
D) Singapore
  • 32. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1926?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
C) Crepusculario
D) Tentativa del hombre infinito
  • 33. What was the name of the capital of the British colony of Burma where Neruda served as a consul?
A) Batavia
B) Singapore
C) Rangoon
D) Colombo
  • 34. What was the name of the city where Neruda met his first wife?
A) Rangoon
B) Colombo
C) Singapore
D) Batavia
  • 35. What health condition did Neruda's daughter suffer from?
A) Cystic fibrosis
B) Diabetes
C) Hydrocephalus
D) Asthma
  • 36. Where did Neruda's daughter spend most of her life?
A) With her mother in Spain
B) With a foster family in the Netherlands
C) With her father in Chile
D) With her grandparents in Argentina
  • 37. What was the purpose of the Second International Writers' Congress attended by Neruda?
A) To discuss the attitude of intellectuals toward the war in Spain
B) To organize a literary festival in Paris
C) To establish a new literary movement
D) To promote the works of Spanish poets
  • 38. Where did Neruda obtain a divorce from his first wife?
A) Spain
B) Mexico
C) Chile
D) France
  • 39. Where did Neruda's estranged wife move to escape the hostilities in Spain?
A) Barcelona
B) Madrid
C) Paris
D) Monte Carlo
  • 40. Where did Neruda marry Delia del Carril?
A) Tetecala
B) Buenos Aires
C) Paris
D) Madrid
  • 41. Which ancient site did Neruda visit in Peru?
A) Nazca Lines
B) Lake Titicaca
C) Machu Picchu
D) Cusco
  • 42. Which Chilean composer worked closely with Neruda on the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta'?
A) Mikis Theodorakis
B) Sergio Ortega
C) Michael Gielen
D) Leon Schidlowsky
  • 43. What was the initial reported cause of Neruda's death on 23 September 1973?
A) Heart failure
B) Poisoning
C) Botulism
D) Prostate cancer
  • 44. Which novel fictionalized Neruda's stay on the island of Capri?
A) El cartero de Neruda
B) Canto General
C) Ardiente Paciencia
D) Los versos del capitán
  • 45. In which year did the Cultural Committee of Chile's lower house vote to rename Santiago's main airport after Pablo Neruda?
A) November 2018
B) 2016
C) 2019
D) 2017
  • 46. Which event caused a rift between Neruda and Octavio Paz?
A) The fall of the Berlin Wall
B) The Cuban Missile Crisis
C) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
D) The Nazi-Soviet Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact
  • 47. In which year was Pablo Neruda nominated as a candidate for the Chilean presidency?
A) 1970
B) 1972
C) 1969
D) 1971
  • 48. Which Soviet leader did Neruda admire for defeating Nazi Germany?
A) Leon Trotsky
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 49. How long did Pablo Neruda remain in hiding?
A) 6 months
B) 13 months
C) 9 months
D) 24 months
  • 50. In what year was the investigation into Neruda's death officially launched?
A) 2015
B) 2010
C) 2013
D) 2017
  • 51. What was the relationship between Neruda and Matilde Urrutia?
A) They were colleagues
B) They were strangers
C) They were siblings
D) They began an affair
  • 52. Who was the Chilean judge investigating Neruda's death?
A) Mario Carroza
B) Manuel Araya
C) Salvador Allende
D) Artur Lundkvist
  • 53. Who did Neruda tell Aida Figueroa not to cry for after Che Guevara's death?
A) Luis Emilio Recabarren
B) Fidel Castro
C) Che Guevara
D) Salvador Allende
  • 54. Who helped Pablo Neruda enter Paris?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Joan Miró
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 55. Where did Neruda flee to after escaping Chile?
A) Peru
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Ecuador
  • 56. How did Neruda manage to travel to Europe during his exile?
A) Traveling without a passport
B) Using his own passport
C) Using a fake passport
D) Using Miguel Ángel Asturias' passport
  • 57. Where did Neruda and Matilde Urrutia go after being allowed to leave Chile?
A) New York City
B) Cuba
C) Mexico City
D) Capri, Italy
  • 58. Which film was inspired by Antonio Skarmeta's novel about Neruda?
A) Il Postino
B) Neruda
C) La teta asustada
D) Amores perros
  • 59. What did the Pablo Neruda Foundation argue against the exhumation?
A) Neruda's death was natural
B) The forensic team was unqualified
C) The investigation was biased
D) Araya's claims were unbelievable
  • 60. Which Soviet leader did Neruda regard as 'the great constructor of the future'?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Mikhail Kalinin
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 61. What did Martín Espada declare about 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) It is the most innovative poem of the 20th century
B) There is no greater political poem
C) It is a masterpiece of nature poetry
D) It is the best love poem ever written
  • 62. Which Chinese leader did Neruda criticize for 'Mao Tse-Stalinism'?
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Deng Xiaoping
C) Mao Tse-tung
D) Chiang Kai-shek
  • 63. What was the name of the pass Neruda crossed to escape Chile?
A) Huascarán Pass
B) Aconcagua Pass
C) Lilpela Pass
D) Cerro Torre Pass
  • 64. What prize was Pablo Neruda awarded in 1953?
A) The Hugo Award
B) The Nobel Prize in Literature
C) The Stalin Peace Prize
D) The Lenin Peace Prize
  • 65. Which event did Neruda vigorously denounce in addition to the Vietnam War?
A) World War II
B) The Korean War
C) The Cuban Missile Crisis
D) The Gulf War
  • 66. Which U.S. President's administration eventually granted Neruda a visa to attend the PEN conference in New York City?
A) The Johnson Administration
B) The Carter Administration
C) The Nixon Administration
D) The Kennedy Administration
  • 67. What nickname was given to the Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia?
A) Ley de la Libertad
B) Ley Maldita
C) Ley de la Paz
D) Ley de la Democracia
  • 68. In which year did Neruda return to Chile?
A) 1945
B) 1941
C) 1947
D) 1943
  • 69. How many houses owned by Pablo Neruda are open to the public as museums in Chile?
A) Four
B) Three
C) One
D) Two
  • 70. Who organized the PEN conference that Neruda attended in 1966?
A) Carlos Fuentes
B) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Arthur Miller
  • 71. What was the main conclusion of the 2018 analysis regarding the bacterium found in Neruda's remains?
A) It was a common foodborne pathogen
B) It was naturally occurring
C) It could possibly be a laboratory-cultivated bacterium
D) It was harmless
  • 72. What was the title of Neruda's dramatic speech in the Chilean senate in 1948?
A) El pueblo unido
B) Canto general
C) La tierra se levanta
D) Yo acuso
  • 73. In which year did Neruda return to Chile to support Salvador Allende's presidential campaign?
A) 1970
B) 1964
C) 1955
D) 1952
  • 74. What did Neruda condemn in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The destruction of the environment
B) The corruption of leaders
C) The slavery that made Macchu Picchu possible
D) The lack of education
  • 75. Who was the Chilean Socialist Party nominating for the presidential elections in 1952?
A) Salvador Allende
B) González Videla
C) Matilde Urrutia
D) Neruda
  • 76. Who was the President of Chile that Neruda supported in the 1938 election?
A) Salvador Allende
B) Augusto Pinochet
C) Gabriel González Videla
D) Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  • 77. In what year was the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta' created?
A) 1977
B) 1957
C) 1987
D) 1967
  • 78. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, which Neruda was also a candidate for?
A) Carlos Fuentes
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Arthur Miller
  • 79. What was the relationship status between Neruda and Delia del Carril when he returned to Chile in 1952?
A) They were newlyweds
B) They were happily married
C) The marriage was crumbling
D) They were separated
  • 80. What was the cause of death listed for Pablo Neruda?
A) Heart attack
B) Poisoning
C) Prostate cancer
D) Botulism
  • 81. What illness caused Neruda's stay in Mexico to be extended?
A) Malaria
B) Tuberculosis
C) Phlebitis
D) Pneumonia
  • 82. What bacterium was found in Neruda's bloodstream in 2023?
A) Salmonella
B) Escherichia coli
C) Clostridium botulinum
D) Staphylococcus aureus
  • 83. What major financial task did Neruda undertake during his time in Paris?
A) Established new trade agreements with France
B) Negotiated Chile's internal debt
C) Renegotiated Chile's external debt
D) Increased Chile's external debt
  • 84. What was Neruda's role in France from 1970 to 1973?
A) Ambassador
B) Poet
C) President
D) Minister
  • 85. How many Spanish refugees did Neruda help transport to Chile?
A) 2,000
B) 3,000
C) 1,000
D) 500
  • 86. Who was the president of Peru when Neruda visited in 1966?
A) González Videla
B) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
C) Fidel Castro
D) Salvador Allende
  • 87. Who was the Mexican painter that Neruda helped by arranging a Chilean visa?
A) David Alfaro Siqueiros
B) Diego Rivera
C) José Clemente Orozco
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 88. Which country's president received Neruda during his visit in 1966?
A) Cuba
B) Chile
C) Peru
D) Mexico
  • 89. Where did Neruda move to after Valdivia?
A) Antofagasta
B) Copiapó
C) Fundo Huishue
D) Santiago
  • 90. Who led the military coup in Chile in 1973?
A) Artur Lundkvist
B) General Augusto Pinochet
C) Salvador Allende
D) Manuel Araya
  • 91. Who criticized Neruda for not speaking out against Argentine President Juan Perón?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Julio Cortázar
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Jorge Luis Borges
  • 92. Which country did Neruda visit that is located in Asia?
A) Argentina
B) India
C) Mexico
D) Brazil
  • 93. Which ship did Neruda use to transport Spanish refugees to Chile?
A) The Queen Mary
B) The Winnipeg
C) The Titanic
D) The Santa María
  • 94. Which prestigious award did Neruda receive in 1972?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) International Peace Prize
C) Golden Wreath Award
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 95. How did Neruda escape Chile?
A) By train
B) By plane
C) By boat
D) On horseback over the Lilpela Pass
  • 96. Which poem did Neruda read at the welcoming ceremony for Fidel Castro?
A) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
B) Canto general
C) Un canto para Bolívar
D) Oda al tomate
  • 97. Who was hired to care for Neruda during his stay in Mexico?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Frida Kahlo
C) Isabel Allende
D) Matilde Urrutia
  • 98. Who was the Chilean lawyer leading the push for a full investigation into Neruda's death?
A) Eduardo Contreras
B) Manuel Araya
C) Mario Carroza
D) Artur Lundkvist
  • 99. Which country did Pablo Neruda describe raping a woman in 1929?
A) Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
B) Argentina
C) Peru
D) Mexico
  • 100. What illness was Neruda diagnosed with during the 1973 coup d'état?
A) Prostate cancer
B) Heart disease
C) Stomach cancer
D) Lung cancer
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