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