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