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