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