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