The Rich Poetry and Literature of Pablo Neruda
The Rich Poetry and Literature of Pablo Neruda
  • 1. What is the name of the famous Chilean poet known for his rich poetry and literature?
A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Mario Vargas Llosa
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 2. In which year was Pablo Neruda awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1965
B) 1992
C) 1971
D) 1980
  • 3. Which poetic work by Neruda is a collection of 100 love sonnets?
A) Veinte poemas de amor
B) Confieso que he vivido
C) Cien sonetos de amor
D) Odas elementales
  • 4. In which country was Pablo Neruda born?
A) Peru
B) Chile
C) Colombia
D) Argentina
  • 5. What was Pablo Neruda's occupation before becoming a full-time writer?
A) Physician
B) Farmer
C) Teacher
D) Diplomat
  • 6. Which literary movement is Neruda associated with?
A) Surrealism
B) Romanticism
C) Realism
D) Naturalism
  • 7. What is the common theme in Neruda's 'Canto general'?
A) Latin American history and culture
B) European mythology
C) Asian philosophy
D) African literature
  • 8. What is the title of Neruda's autobiography?
A) Crepusculario
B) Canto general
C) Residencia en la tierra
D) Confieso que he vivido
  • 9. Which collection of poems by Neruda is inspired by the Spanish Civil War?
A) España en el corazón
B) El habitante y su esperanza
C) Navegaciones y regresos
D) Las uvas y el viento
  • 10. What was Pablo Neruda's birth name?
A) Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
B) José del Carmen Reyes Morales
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Pablo Neruda Reyes
  • 11. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work?
A) Crepusculario
B) Entusiasmo y perseverancia
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) United Fruit Company
  • 12. Who encouraged Neruda's interest in writing and literature?
A) Eduardo Barrios
B) Don Carlos George Nascimento
C) José del Carmen Reyes Morales
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 13. Which country did Neruda serve as an honorary consul in 1927?
A) Chile
B) Burma (now Myanmar)
C) Java
D) Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
  • 14. What was the name of Neruda's first wife?
A) Aurelia Tolrà
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Maruca
D) Rosa Neftalí Basoalto Opazo
  • 15. Which poem by Neruda criticized the United Fruit Company?
A) United Fruit Company
B) Comunión ideal
C) Nocturno ideal
D) Mis ojos
  • 16. Which city did Neruda move to for his studies at the Universidad de Chile?
A) Temuco
B) Maihue Lake
C) Parral
D) Santiago
  • 17. What was the title of Neruda's first volume of verse?
A) United Fruit Company
B) Residencia en la Tierra
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Crepusculario
  • 18. Which Nobel Prize-winning novelist called Neruda 'the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language'?
A) Eduardo Barrios
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Harold Bloom
D) Don Carlos George Nascimento
  • 19. What was the name of Neruda's half-brother?
A) Aurelia Tolrà
B) Laurita
C) José del Carmen Reyes Morales
D) Rodolfo
  • 20. What was the name of Neruda's half-sister?
A) Aurelia Tolrà
B) Maruca
C) Rosa Neftalí Basoalto Opazo
D) Laura Herminia 'Laurita'
  • 21. In which year did Neruda publish his novel El habitante y su esperanza?
A) 1927
B) 1923
C) 1932
D) 1926
  • 22. Where did Pablo Neruda serve as a consul after returning to Chile?
A) Madrid, Spain
B) Buenos Aires, Argentina
C) Barcelona, Spain
D) Paris, France
  • 23. Which congress did Neruda attend to discuss intellectuals' attitudes toward the Spanish Civil War?
A) The First World Congress of Intellectuals
B) The Paris Peace Conference
C) The Second International Writers' Congress
D) The Berlin Conference
  • 24. Who was Pablo Neruda's first wife?
A) Trinidad Reyes
B) María Antonia Hagenaar Vogelzang
C) Delia del Carril
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 25. Where was Neruda's daughter, Malva Marina (Trinidad) Reyes, born?
A) Paris, France
B) Monte Carlo
C) Madrid, Spain
D) Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 26. What was the name of the ship used to transport Spanish refugees to Chile?
A) Baltic
B) Titanic
C) Winnipeg
D) Queen Mary
  • 27. Which president's election did Neruda support in 1938?
A) Francisco Franco
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Pedro Aguirre Cerda
D) Juan Negrín
  • 28. What was the main reason for Neruda losing his post as consul?
A) His marriage breakdown
B) Traveling to France
C) His political militancy
D) The birth of his daughter
  • 29. Who was the aristocratic Argentine artist Neruda began a relationship with?
A) Delia del Carril
B) Trinidad Reyes
C) María Antonia Hagenaar Vogelzang
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 30. What was the legal status of Neruda's marriage to Delia del Carril in Chile?
A) Annulled by Chilean authorities
B) Approved only after a lengthy legal battle
C) Not recognized due to his previous divorce being deemed illegal
D) Recognized immediately after their wedding
  • 31. What was the main accusation against Neruda regarding the selection of Spanish refugees?
A) Refusing to transport any refugees
B) Selecting only fellow Communists for emigration
C) Ignoring all political affiliations
D) Choosing only non-Communists
  • 32. Where was Pablo Neruda's diplomatic post from 1940 to 1943?
A) Buenos Aires, Argentina
B) Santiago, Chile
C) Mexico City
D) Lima, Peru
  • 33. Who did Pablo Neruda arrange a Chilean visa for in 1940?
A) Leon Trotsky
B) David Alfaro Siqueiros
C) Manuel Ávila Camacho
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 34. Who requested Neruda to arrange the Chilean visa for Siqueiros?
A) Leon Trotsky
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Fidel Castro
D) Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho
  • 35. Where did Siqueiros stay after arriving in Chile?
A) At Neruda's private residence.
B) In an artist commune.
C) In a public hotel.
D) With the Mexican embassy.
  • 36. How did Neruda describe the allegations of aiding an assassin?
A) "An unavoidable mistake."
B) "A grave misunderstanding."
C) "A personal vendetta."
D) "Sensationalist politico-literary harassment."
  • 37. In which year did Neruda return to Chile?
A) 1945
B) 1950
C) 1948
D) 1943
  • 38. Which ancient site did Neruda visit in Peru that inspired a major work?
A) Chavin de Huantar
B) Machu Picchu
C) Nazca Lines
D) Pisac
  • 39. In which year did Neruda complete 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) 1943
B) 1950
C) 1948
D) 1945
  • 40. What theme does 'Canto General' explore further?
A) Chilean politics in the 20th century.
B) The ancient civilizations of the Americas.
C) Modern European history.
D) Neruda's personal love life.
  • 41. How long did Neruda remain in hiding before fleeing to Argentina?
A) 9 months
B) 6 months
C) 24 months
D) 13 months
  • 42. In which city did Neruda's life underground end in March 1949?
A) Argentina
B) Mexico City
C) Paris
D) Buenos Aires
  • 43. Who was the Socialist Party candidate for the 1952 Chilean presidential elections that Neruda supported?
A) Salvador Allende
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
D) González Videla
  • 44. Which film was inspired by Antonio Skarmeta's novel about Neruda?
A) Il Postino (The Postman)
B) Amores Perros
C) Like Water for Chocolate
D) City of God
  • 45. Which publisher released the bilingual edition of 'The Captain's Verses' in 1972?
A) Farrar, Straus and Giroux
B) Grove Press
C) New Directions
D) Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • 46. Who is the protagonist of Roberto Ampuero's novel 'El caso Neruda'?
A) Antonio Skarmeta
B) Roberto Bolaño
C) Cayetano Brulé
D) Pablo Neruda
  • 47. In which year was Neruda's 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu' published?
A) 1948
B) 1967
C) 1937
D) 1950
  • 48. Which Italian historian owned the villa on Capri where Neruda stayed in 1952?
A) Giorgio Vasari
B) Edwin Cerio
C) Leonardo Bruni
D) Giovanni Boccaccio
  • 49. How many houses owned by Pablo Neruda are open to the public as museums in Chile?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) One
  • 50. What is the title of Neruda's collection published in 1954 that includes simple and direct poems?
A) Cien sonetos de amor
B) Odas elementales.
C) Residencia en la tierra
D) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
  • 51. What does Neruda celebrate in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The achievement of Machu Picchu.
B) The beauty of the Amazon rainforest.
C) The industrialization of Peru.
D) The Spanish conquest of the Americas.
  • 52. Which Chilean composer collaborated with Neruda on the musical play Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta?
A) Sergio Ortega
B) Mikis Theodorakis
C) Michael Gielen
D) Leon Schidlowsky
  • 53. What was the name of the Chilean singer who became Neruda's muse and later his wife?
A) María Elena Walsh
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Isabel Allende
D) Matilde Urrutia
  • 54. What type of album is Luciana Souza's 'Neruda'?
A) Rock album
B) Pop album
C) Jazz album
D) Classical music album
  • 55. What illness was Pablo Neruda diagnosed with during the coup d'état in 1973?
A) Heart disease
B) Leukemia
C) Prostate cancer
D) Lung cancer
  • 56. Who was the playwright that helped secure Neruda's visa to enter the U.S.?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Lillian Hellman
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Arthur Miller
  • 57. What is the title of Sixpence None the Richer's song inspired by Neruda?
A) "Abeja Blanca"
B) "Puedo escribir"
C) "Me gusta cuando callas"
D) "Soneto de la noche"
  • 58. Who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature instead of Pablo Neruda?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) William Faulkner
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 59. Which bilingual edition was translated by Ben Belitt and published in 1972?
A) The Captain's Verses
B) Extravagaria
C) Residence on Earth
D) New Poems (1968-1970)
  • 60. What was Pablo Neruda's cause of death officially listed as?
A) Poisoning
B) Heart attack
C) Botulism
D) Cancer
  • 61. What was the name of the Chilean communist movement's father whom Neruda referred to?
A) Manuel Rodríguez
B) Vicente Huidobro
C) Luis Emilio Recabarren
D) Gabriel González Videla
  • 62. Which band released a rock album titled Alturas de Macchu Picchu?
A) Los Jaivas
B) Ute Lemper
C) Sixpence None the Richer
D) Brazilian Girls
  • 63. Who did Neruda consider the 'great genius of this century'?
A) Fidel Castro
B) Mao Tse-tung
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Vladimir Lenin
  • 64. Which translator worked on multiple translations of Pablo Neruda's works?
A) Donald D. Walsh
B) Nathaniel Tarn
C) Alastair Reid
D) William O'Daly
  • 65. Which university confirmed the presence of Clostridium botulinum bacteria in Neruda's bloodstream?
A) Stanford University
B) Harvard University
C) Oxford University
D) McMaster University
  • 66. In what year did Pablo Neruda return to Chile to support Salvador Allende's presidential campaign?
A) 1948
B) 1964
C) 1952
D) 1970
  • 67. What is the title of Neruda's 1958 work that explores surreal and imaginative themes?
A) Nuevas odas elementales
B) Estravagario.
C) Tercer libro de las odas
D) Odas elementales
  • 68. Which composer created the choral song 'Soneto de la noche'?
A) Ezequiel Viñao
B) Morten Lauridsen
C) Marco Katz
D) Peter Lieberson
  • 69. Which bilingual edition was translated by Stephen Tapscott and published in 1986?
A) The Captain's Verses
B) Residence on Earth
C) New Poems (1968-1970)
D) 100 Love Sonnets
  • 70. Which major global event did Neruda denounce during his lifetime?
A) The Cuban Missile Crisis
B) World War II
C) The Korean War
D) The Gulf War
  • 71. Who translated 'Venture of the Infinite Man' published by City Lights in 2017?
A) William O'Daly
B) Stephen Tapscott
C) Alastair Reid
D) Jessica Powell
  • 72. In what year did Sergio Ortega expand the musical play into an opera?
A) 1975
B) 1981
C) 1967
D) 1998
  • 73. Which publisher released 'Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda' in 2016?
A) Copper Canyon Press
B) Farrar, Straus & Giroux
C) HarperCollins
D) City Lights
  • 74. Through which pass did Pablo Neruda escape Chile on horseback?
A) Andes Pass
B) Cordillera Pass
C) Lilpela Pass
D) Huascaran Pass
  • 75. Which country was involved in the incident described in Neruda's memoirs that sparked protests?
A) Brazil
B) Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
  • 76. Which publisher released 'Grapes and the Wind' in 2019?
A) Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
B) City Lights
C) Copper Canyon Press
D) Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • 77. Which 1985 novel by Antonio Skarmeta fictionalizes Neruda's stay in a villa on Capri?
A) La casa de los espíritus
B) Ardiente paciencia
C) El cartero de Neruda
D) Los detectives salvajes
  • 78. What does Neruda condemn in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The influence of European culture.
B) The lack of education among indigenous people.
C) The modernization of Latin America.
D) The slavery that made Machu Picchu possible.
  • 79. Who translated 'On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea' published by Rayo HarperCollins?
A) Nathaniel Tarn
B) Alastair Reid
C) William O'Daly
D) Donald D. Walsh
  • 80. What is the title of Neruda's lengthy epic poem that catalogs South America?
A) Residence on Earth
B) 100 Love Sonnets
C) Canto General
D) The Heights of Macchu Picchu
  • 81. In which year was 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' translated by Nathaniel Tarn?
A) 1972
B) 1970
C) 1966
D) 1973
  • 82. Which film references Neruda's works and stars Adam Levine?
A) Happiness for Beginners
B) Patch Adams
C) Chemical Hearts
D) Mindwalk
  • 83. Which revolutionary leader's death did Neruda deeply regret in 1967?
A) Mao Zedong
B) Fidel Castro
C) Che Guevara
D) Ho Chi Minh
  • 84. Which composer created a cantata titled Canto General dedicated to Salvador Allende?
A) Julia Stilman-Lasansky
B) Peter Schat
C) Samuel Barber
D) Tobias Picker
  • 85. Which country did Pablo Neruda visit after returning from the PEN conference in New York City?
A) Mexico
B) France
C) Cuba
D) Peru
  • 86. Which country did Neruda and Matilde Urrutia travel to after his arrest was lifted?
A) Italy
B) United States
C) Mexico City
D) France
  • 87. Which Nobel Prize-winning novelist helped Neruda travel to Europe?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Jorge Luis Borges
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Miguel Ángel Asturias
  • 88. Who translated 'Residence on Earth' for its bilingual edition?
A) Ben Belitt
B) Donald D. Walsh
C) Stephen Tapscott
D) Alastair Reid
  • 89. What was the name of Neruda's dramatic speech in the Chilean senate?
A) "Yo acuso" ("I accuse")
B) Un canto para Bolívar
C) Canto a Stalingrado
D) Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado
  • 90. Who was the Chilean judge who ordered an investigation into Neruda's death in June 2013?
A) Sebastián Piñera
B) Ricardo Lagos
C) Michelle Bachelet
D) Mario Carroza
  • 91. Which poem by Neruda is used in 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'?
A) Walking Around
B) If You Forget Me
C) "The Dead Woman"
D) Ode to the Tomato
  • 92. What prize was awarded to Neruda in 1953?
A) The Mao Tse-tung Thought Award
B) The Nobel Prize for Literature
C) The Lenin Peace Prize
D) The Stalin Peace Prize
  • 93. Which Soviet leader did Neruda write an ode to after his death?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Mikhail Kalinin
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 94. Who was the Peruvian President that received Neruda during his visit to Peru?
A) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
B) Juan Velasco Alvarado
C) Alberto Fujimori
D) Manuel Prado Ugarteche
  • 95. Which U.S. President's administration eventually granted Neruda a visa to enter the United States?
A) Truman Administration
B) Kennedy Administration
C) Eisenhower Administration
D) Johnson Administration
  • 96. What role did Pablo Neruda serve in France from 1970 to 1973?
A) Tourism ambassador
B) Ambassador
C) Poet-in-residence
D) Cultural attaché
  • 97. What is the title of Ute Lemper's album released in 2013?
A) "Canto General"
B) "Forever"
C) "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"
D) "Neruda"
  • 98. In which year was Pablo Neruda nominated for the Chilean presidency?
A) 1970
B) 1973
C) 1971
D) 1969
  • 99. What was the reaction of more than 100 Cuban intellectuals to Neruda's visit to Peru?
A) They ignored his visit completely
B) They praised his support for Castro
C) They invited him to Cuba
D) They signed a letter charging him with colluding with the enemy
  • 100. Which revolutionary leader did Neruda honor at a ceremony hosted by the Central University of Venezuela?
A) Fidel Castro
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Mao Tse-tung
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