Pablo Neruda - Test
Pablo Neruda
  • 1. Which country was Pablo Neruda from?
A) Argentina
B) Spain
C) Chile
D) Mexico
  • 2. In which year did Pablo Neruda win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1960
B) 1999
C) 1971
D) 1985
  • 3. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work of poetry?
A) The Book of Questions
B) Residence on Earth
C) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
D) Crepusculario
  • 4. What was the title of Neruda's memoir published posthumously in 1974?
A) The Buried Mirror
B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
D) Confieso que he vivido
  • 5. What was Neruda's occupation outside of writing?
A) Surgeon
B) Diplomat
C) Farmer
D) Pilot
  • 6. Which major literary movement was Neruda associated with?
A) Naturalism
B) Realism
C) Romanticism
D) Surrealism
  • 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 dare from a friend
D) A dream he had
  • 8. What year was Pablo Neruda born in?
A) 1899
B) 1915
C) 1920
D) 1904
  • 9. Which city in Spain did Neruda serve as a consul?
A) Seville
B) Barcelona
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) 1921
B) 1917
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) Eduardo Barrios
B) Harold Bloom
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 14. What was controversial about 'Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada'?
A) Its surrealist style
B) Its eroticism
C) Its political content
D) Its autobiographical nature
  • 15. Which city did Neruda move to at the age of 16 to study French?
A) Temuco
B) Parral
C) Maihue
D) Santiago
  • 16. Which publisher was the most important in Chile during Neruda's early career?
A) Don Carlos George Nascimento
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Eduardo Barrios
  • 17. What was the name of Neruda's first wife?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Maruca
C) Aurelia Tolrà
D) Rosa Neftalí
  • 18. Which country did Neruda serve as a consul in 1927?
A) Chile
B) Burma
C) Java
D) Ceylon
  • 19. What is the name of the collection that includes many of Neruda's surrealist poems?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Tentativa del hombre infinito
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) Corruption and exploitation by corporations
B) Love and passion
C) Nature and beauty
D) Political activism
  • 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) Liberalism
B) Communism
C) Fascism
D) Socialism
  • 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) Maule Stadium
B) Santiago Stadium
C) Estadio Nacional
D) Chile National Stadium
  • 25. Which country's Nobel Prize did Neruda win in 1971?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Physics
  • 26. What was the name of Neruda's half-brother?
A) Rodolfo
B) Carlos
C) Salvador
D) Gabriel
  • 27. What was the name of Neruda's half-sister?
A) Maruca
B) Laura Herminia 'Laurita'
C) Rosa
D) Aurelia
  • 28. What was the name of the poet after whom Neruda is thought to have derived his pen name?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Eduardo Barrios
C) Jan Neruda
D) Harold Bloom
  • 29. What was the title of Neruda's novel published in 1926?
A) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
B) El habitante y su esperanza
C) Residencia en la Tierra
D) Crepusculario
  • 30. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1923?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Crepusculario
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Tentativa del hombre infinito
  • 31. Which city did Neruda work in after Batavia?
A) Temuco
B) Colombo
C) Rangoon
D) Singapore
  • 32. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1926?
A) Tentativa del hombre infinito
B) Crepusculario
C) Residencia en la Tierra
D) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
  • 33. What was the name of the capital of the British colony of Burma where Neruda served as a consul?
A) Singapore
B) Colombo
C) Rangoon
D) Batavia
  • 34. What was the name of the city where Neruda met his first wife?
A) Singapore
B) Colombo
C) Batavia
D) Rangoon
  • 35. What health condition did Neruda's daughter suffer from?
A) Diabetes
B) Cystic fibrosis
C) Hydrocephalus
D) Asthma
  • 36. Where did Neruda's daughter spend most of her life?
A) With a foster family in the Netherlands
B) With her mother in Spain
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) Chile
B) France
C) Spain
D) Mexico
  • 39. Where did Neruda's estranged wife move to escape the hostilities in Spain?
A) Monte Carlo
B) Madrid
C) Paris
D) Barcelona
  • 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) Lake Titicaca
B) Machu Picchu
C) Cusco
D) Nazca Lines
  • 42. Which Chilean composer worked closely with Neruda on the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta'?
A) Leon Schidlowsky
B) Mikis Theodorakis
C) Sergio Ortega
D) Michael Gielen
  • 43. What was the initial reported cause of Neruda's death on 23 September 1973?
A) Botulism
B) Prostate cancer
C) Poisoning
D) Heart failure
  • 44. Which novel fictionalized Neruda's stay on the island of Capri?
A) Canto General
B) El cartero de Neruda
C) Los versos del capitán
D) Ardiente Paciencia
  • 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 Nazi-Soviet Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact
B) The fall of the Berlin Wall
C) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
D) The Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 47. In which year was Pablo Neruda nominated as a candidate for the Chilean presidency?
A) 1969
B) 1970
C) 1972
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) 6 months
D) 13 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 siblings
B) They were colleagues
C) They began an affair
D) They were strangers
  • 52. Who was the Chilean judge investigating Neruda's death?
A) Manuel Araya
B) Salvador Allende
C) Artur Lundkvist
D) Mario Carroza
  • 53. Who did Neruda tell Aida Figueroa not to cry for after Che Guevara's death?
A) Che Guevara
B) Luis Emilio Recabarren
C) Fidel Castro
D) Salvador Allende
  • 54. Who helped Pablo Neruda enter Paris?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Frida Kahlo
D) Joan Miró
  • 55. Where did Neruda flee to after escaping Chile?
A) Brazil
B) Peru
C) Argentina
D) Ecuador
  • 56. How did Neruda manage to travel to Europe during his exile?
A) Using his own passport
B) Using Miguel Ángel Asturias' passport
C) Using a fake passport
D) Traveling without a passport
  • 57. Where did Neruda and Matilde Urrutia go after being allowed to leave Chile?
A) Capri, Italy
B) New York City
C) Cuba
D) Mexico City
  • 58. Which film was inspired by Antonio Skarmeta's novel about Neruda?
A) Amores perros
B) Neruda
C) La teta asustada
D) Il Postino
  • 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) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Mikhail Kalinin
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 61. What did Martín Espada declare about 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) It is a masterpiece of nature poetry
B) It is the best love poem ever written
C) It is the most innovative poem of the 20th century
D) There is no greater political poem
  • 62. Which Chinese leader did Neruda criticize for 'Mao Tse-Stalinism'?
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Mao Tse-tung
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Sun Yat-sen
  • 63. What was the name of the pass Neruda crossed to escape Chile?
A) Huascarán Pass
B) Aconcagua Pass
C) Cerro Torre Pass
D) Lilpela Pass
  • 64. What prize was Pablo Neruda awarded in 1953?
A) The Lenin Peace Prize
B) The Nobel Prize in Literature
C) The Stalin Peace Prize
D) The Hugo Award
  • 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 Nixon Administration
B) The Johnson Administration
C) The Kennedy Administration
D) The Carter 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) 1941
B) 1947
C) 1945
D) 1943
  • 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) Arthur Miller
B) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
C) Carlos Fuentes
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 71. What was the main conclusion of the 2018 analysis regarding the bacterium found in Neruda's remains?
A) It was harmless
B) It could possibly be a laboratory-cultivated bacterium
C) It was naturally occurring
D) It was a common foodborne pathogen
  • 72. What was the title of Neruda's dramatic speech in the Chilean senate in 1948?
A) La tierra se levanta
B) Yo acuso
C) El pueblo unido
D) Canto general
  • 73. In which year did Neruda return to Chile to support Salvador Allende's presidential campaign?
A) 1964
B) 1970
C) 1955
D) 1952
  • 74. What did Neruda condemn in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The corruption of leaders
B) The slavery that made Macchu Picchu possible
C) The lack of education
D) The destruction of the environment
  • 75. Who was the Chilean Socialist Party nominating for the presidential elections in 1952?
A) Matilde Urrutia
B) González Videla
C) Neruda
D) Salvador Allende
  • 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) 1987
B) 1977
C) 1967
D) 1957
  • 78. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, which Neruda was also a candidate for?
A) Carlos Fuentes
B) Arthur Miller
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Pablo Neruda
  • 79. What was the relationship status between Neruda and Delia del Carril when he returned to Chile in 1952?
A) The marriage was crumbling
B) They were happily married
C) They were separated
D) They were newlyweds
  • 80. What was the cause of death listed for Pablo Neruda?
A) Poisoning
B) Botulism
C) Prostate cancer
D) Heart attack
  • 81. What illness caused Neruda's stay in Mexico to be extended?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Pneumonia
C) Malaria
D) Phlebitis
  • 82. What bacterium was found in Neruda's bloodstream in 2023?
A) Salmonella
B) Staphylococcus aureus
C) Escherichia coli
D) Clostridium botulinum
  • 83. What major financial task did Neruda undertake during his time in Paris?
A) Negotiated Chile's internal debt
B) Established new trade agreements with France
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) Minister
B) Poet
C) President
D) Ambassador
  • 85. How many Spanish refugees did Neruda help transport to Chile?
A) 1,000
B) 3,000
C) 500
D) 2,000
  • 86. Who was the president of Peru when Neruda visited in 1966?
A) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
B) Fidel Castro
C) Salvador Allende
D) González Videla
  • 87. Who was the Mexican painter that Neruda helped by arranging a Chilean visa?
A) José Clemente Orozco
B) Diego Rivera
C) David Alfaro Siqueiros
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 88. Which country's president received Neruda during his visit in 1966?
A) Cuba
B) Peru
C) Chile
D) Mexico
  • 89. Where did Neruda move to after Valdivia?
A) Fundo Huishue
B) Copiapó
C) Antofagasta
D) Santiago
  • 90. Who led the military coup in Chile in 1973?
A) General Augusto Pinochet
B) Salvador Allende
C) Artur Lundkvist
D) Manuel Araya
  • 91. Who criticized Neruda for not speaking out against Argentine President Juan Perón?
A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Julio Cortázar
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Mario Vargas Llosa
  • 92. Which country did Neruda visit that is located in Asia?
A) Argentina
B) Mexico
C) Brazil
D) India
  • 93. Which ship did Neruda use to transport Spanish refugees to Chile?
A) The Queen Mary
B) The Santa María
C) The Winnipeg
D) The Titanic
  • 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 boat
C) On horseback over the Lilpela Pass
D) By plane
  • 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) Isabel Allende
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Frida Kahlo
D) Matilde Urrutia
  • 98. Who was the Chilean lawyer leading the push for a full investigation into Neruda's death?
A) Mario Carroza
B) Artur Lundkvist
C) Eduardo Contreras
D) Manuel Araya
  • 99. Which country did Pablo Neruda describe raping a woman in 1929?
A) Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
B) Argentina
C) Mexico
D) Peru
  • 100. What illness was Neruda diagnosed with during the 1973 coup d'état?
A) Stomach cancer
B) Lung cancer
C) Heart disease
D) Prostate cancer
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