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  • 1. Which country was Pablo Neruda from?
A) Mexico
B) Chile
C) Spain
D) Argentina
  • 2. In which year did Pablo Neruda win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1985
B) 1971
C) 1960
D) 1999
  • 3. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work of poetry?
A) Crepusculario
B) The Book of Questions
C) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
D) Residence on Earth
  • 4. What was the title of Neruda's memoir published posthumously in 1974?
A) The Buried Mirror
B) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
C) Confieso que he vivido
D) One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • 5. What was Neruda's occupation outside of writing?
A) Surgeon
B) Pilot
C) Diplomat
D) Farmer
  • 6. Which major literary movement was Neruda associated with?
A) Surrealism
B) Romanticism
C) Naturalism
D) Realism
  • 7. What inspired Neruda to write a collection of poems about the sea?
A) A dream he had
B) A bet he made
C) His love for the ocean
D) A dare from a friend
  • 8. What year was Pablo Neruda born in?
A) 1899
B) 1920
C) 1915
D) 1904
  • 9. Which city in Spain did Neruda serve as a consul?
A) Seville
B) Valencia
C) Barcelona
D) Madrid
  • 10. What was Pablo Neruda's birth name?
A) Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Jan Neruda
D) Gabriel García Márquez
  • 11. In which year did Pablo Neruda publish his first work?
A) 1923
B) 1921
C) 1917
D) 1926
  • 12. 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) El habitante y su esperanza
  • 13. Which Nobel Prize-winning poet encouraged Neruda's literary pursuits?
A) Harold Bloom
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Gabriela Mistral
D) Eduardo Barrios
  • 14. What was controversial about 'Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada'?
A) Its autobiographical nature
B) Its eroticism
C) Its political content
D) Its surrealist style
  • 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) Eduardo Barrios
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 17. What was the name of Neruda's first wife?
A) Rosa Neftalí
B) Aurelia Tolrà
C) Gabriela Mistral
D) Maruca
  • 18. Which country did Neruda serve as a consul in 1927?
A) Burma
B) Java
C) Chile
D) Ceylon
  • 19. What is the name of the collection that includes many of Neruda's surrealist poems?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
C) Tentativa del hombre infinito
D) Crepusculario
  • 20. What was the main theme of Neruda's poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) Nature and beauty
B) Love and passion
C) Corruption and exploitation by corporations
D) Political activism
  • 21. Which company did Neruda criticize in his poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) British East India Company
B) Ford Motors
C) United Fruit Company
D) Coca-Cola
  • 22. What political ideology did Neruda promote through his writings?
A) Liberalism
B) Fascism
C) Communism
D) Socialism
  • 23. Who called Neruda 'the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language'?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Harold Bloom
D) Eduardo Barrios
  • 24. What was the name of the stadium where Neruda read to 70,000 people?
A) Estadio Nacional
B) Santiago Stadium
C) Chile National Stadium
D) Maule Stadium
  • 25. Which country's Nobel Prize did Neruda win in 1971?
A) Literature
B) Physics
C) Peace
D) Chemistry
  • 26. What was the name of Neruda's half-brother?
A) Carlos
B) Rodolfo
C) Gabriel
D) Salvador
  • 27. What was the name of Neruda's half-sister?
A) Maruca
B) Rosa
C) Aurelia
D) Laura Herminia 'Laurita'
  • 28. What was the name of the poet after whom Neruda is thought to have derived his pen name?
A) Jan Neruda
B) Harold Bloom
C) Eduardo Barrios
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 29. What was the title of Neruda's novel published in 1926?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
C) Crepusculario
D) El habitante y su esperanza
  • 30. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1923?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Tentativa del hombre infinito
C) Crepusculario
D) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
  • 31. Which city did Neruda work in after Batavia?
A) Singapore
B) Colombo
C) Rangoon
D) Temuco
  • 32. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1926?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Tentativa del hombre infinito
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Crepusculario
  • 33. What was the name of the capital of the British colony of Burma where Neruda served as a consul?
A) Rangoon
B) Singapore
C) Colombo
D) Batavia
  • 34. What was the name of the city where Neruda met his first wife?
A) Batavia
B) Rangoon
C) Colombo
D) Singapore
  • 35. What health condition did Neruda's daughter suffer from?
A) Cystic fibrosis
B) Asthma
C) Diabetes
D) Hydrocephalus
  • 36. Where did Neruda's daughter spend most of her life?
A) With her mother in Spain
B) With her grandparents in Argentina
C) With a foster family in the Netherlands
D) With her father in Chile
  • 37. What was the purpose of the Second International Writers' Congress attended by Neruda?
A) To promote the works of Spanish poets
B) To organize a literary festival in Paris
C) To establish a new literary movement
D) To discuss the attitude of intellectuals toward the war in Spain
  • 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) Madrid
B) Paris
C) Monte Carlo
D) Barcelona
  • 40. Where did Neruda marry Delia del Carril?
A) Buenos Aires
B) Paris
C) Madrid
D) Tetecala
  • 41. Which ancient site did Neruda visit in Peru?
A) Lake Titicaca
B) Cusco
C) Nazca Lines
D) Machu Picchu
  • 42. Which Chilean composer worked closely with Neruda on the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta'?
A) Mikis Theodorakis
B) Leon Schidlowsky
C) Michael Gielen
D) Sergio Ortega
  • 43. What was the initial reported cause of Neruda's death on 23 September 1973?
A) Prostate cancer
B) Poisoning
C) Botulism
D) Heart failure
  • 44. Which novel fictionalized Neruda's stay on the island of Capri?
A) El cartero de Neruda
B) Canto General
C) Ardiente Paciencia
D) Los versos del capitán
  • 45. In which year did the Cultural Committee of Chile's lower house vote to rename Santiago's main airport after Pablo Neruda?
A) 2017
B) November 2018
C) 2019
D) 2016
  • 46. Which event caused a rift between Neruda and Octavio Paz?
A) The fall of the Berlin Wall
B) The Cuban Missile Crisis
C) The Nazi-Soviet Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact
D) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
  • 47. In which year was Pablo Neruda nominated as a candidate for the Chilean presidency?
A) 1972
B) 1971
C) 1969
D) 1970
  • 48. Which Soviet leader did Neruda admire for defeating Nazi Germany?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 49. How long did Pablo Neruda remain in hiding?
A) 24 months
B) 9 months
C) 13 months
D) 6 months
  • 50. In what year was the investigation into Neruda's death officially launched?
A) 2010
B) 2013
C) 2017
D) 2015
  • 51. What was the relationship between Neruda and Matilde Urrutia?
A) They were colleagues
B) They began an affair
C) They were strangers
D) They were siblings
  • 52. Who was the Chilean judge investigating Neruda's death?
A) Salvador Allende
B) Manuel Araya
C) Mario Carroza
D) Artur Lundkvist
  • 53. Who did Neruda tell Aida Figueroa not to cry for after Che Guevara's death?
A) Fidel Castro
B) Luis Emilio Recabarren
C) Salvador Allende
D) Che Guevara
  • 54. Who helped Pablo Neruda enter Paris?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Joan Miró
C) Frida Kahlo
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 55. Where did Neruda flee to after escaping Chile?
A) Brazil
B) Ecuador
C) Peru
D) Argentina
  • 56. How did Neruda manage to travel to Europe during his exile?
A) Using Miguel Ángel Asturias' passport
B) Traveling without a passport
C) Using his own passport
D) Using a fake passport
  • 57. Where did Neruda and Matilde Urrutia go after being allowed to leave Chile?
A) Cuba
B) Mexico City
C) Capri, Italy
D) New York City
  • 58. Which film was inspired by Antonio Skarmeta's novel about Neruda?
A) La teta asustada
B) Neruda
C) Amores perros
D) Il Postino
  • 59. What did the Pablo Neruda Foundation argue against the exhumation?
A) Neruda's death was natural
B) Araya's claims were unbelievable
C) The forensic team was unqualified
D) The investigation was biased
  • 60. Which Soviet leader did Neruda regard as 'the great constructor of the future'?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Mikhail Kalinin
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 61. What did Martín Espada declare about 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) There is no greater political poem
B) It is a masterpiece of nature poetry
C) It is the best love poem ever written
D) It is the most innovative poem of the 20th century
  • 62. Which Chinese leader did Neruda criticize for 'Mao Tse-Stalinism'?
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Chiang Kai-shek
C) Mao Tse-tung
D) Deng Xiaoping
  • 63. What was the name of the pass Neruda crossed to escape Chile?
A) Lilpela Pass
B) Huascarán Pass
C) Cerro Torre Pass
D) Aconcagua Pass
  • 64. What prize was Pablo Neruda awarded in 1953?
A) The Hugo Award
B) The Stalin Peace Prize
C) The Lenin Peace Prize
D) The Nobel Prize in Literature
  • 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 Carter Administration
C) The Johnson Administration
D) The Kennedy Administration
  • 67. What nickname was given to the Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia?
A) Ley Maldita
B) Ley de la Libertad
C) Ley de la Democracia
D) Ley de la Paz
  • 68. In which year did Neruda return to Chile?
A) 1947
B) 1943
C) 1941
D) 1945
  • 69. How many houses owned by Pablo Neruda are open to the public as museums in Chile?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Two
D) One
  • 70. Who organized the PEN conference that Neruda attended in 1966?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Arthur Miller
C) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
D) Carlos Fuentes
  • 71. What was the main conclusion of the 2018 analysis regarding the bacterium found in Neruda's remains?
A) It was a common foodborne pathogen
B) It could possibly be a laboratory-cultivated bacterium
C) It was naturally occurring
D) It was harmless
  • 72. What was the title of Neruda's dramatic speech in the Chilean senate in 1948?
A) El pueblo unido
B) Yo acuso
C) La tierra se levanta
D) Canto general
  • 73. In which year did Neruda return to Chile to support Salvador Allende's presidential campaign?
A) 1970
B) 1955
C) 1964
D) 1952
  • 74. What did Neruda condemn in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The destruction of the environment
B) The slavery that made Macchu Picchu possible
C) The corruption of leaders
D) The lack of education
  • 75. Who was the Chilean Socialist Party nominating for the presidential elections in 1952?
A) González Videla
B) Neruda
C) Matilde Urrutia
D) Salvador Allende
  • 76. Who was the President of Chile that Neruda supported in the 1938 election?
A) Pedro Aguirre Cerda
B) Salvador Allende
C) Augusto Pinochet
D) Gabriel González Videla
  • 77. In what year was the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta' created?
A) 1957
B) 1987
C) 1967
D) 1977
  • 78. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, which Neruda was also a candidate for?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Carlos Fuentes
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Arthur Miller
  • 79. What was the relationship status between Neruda and Delia del Carril when he returned to Chile in 1952?
A) They were newlyweds
B) They were separated
C) The marriage was crumbling
D) They were happily married
  • 80. What was the cause of death listed for Pablo Neruda?
A) Prostate cancer
B) Botulism
C) Heart attack
D) Poisoning
  • 81. What illness caused Neruda's stay in Mexico to be extended?
A) Phlebitis
B) Tuberculosis
C) Malaria
D) Pneumonia
  • 82. What bacterium was found in Neruda's bloodstream in 2023?
A) Staphylococcus aureus
B) Escherichia coli
C) Salmonella
D) Clostridium botulinum
  • 83. What major financial task did Neruda undertake during his time in Paris?
A) Established new trade agreements with France
B) Negotiated Chile's internal debt
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) Ambassador
B) President
C) Minister
D) Poet
  • 85. How many Spanish refugees did Neruda help transport to Chile?
A) 2,000
B) 3,000
C) 500
D) 1,000
  • 86. Who was the president of Peru when Neruda visited in 1966?
A) González Videla
B) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
C) Fidel Castro
D) Salvador Allende
  • 87. Who was the Mexican painter that Neruda helped by arranging a Chilean visa?
A) José Clemente Orozco
B) Frida Kahlo
C) Diego Rivera
D) David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • 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) Copiapó
B) Santiago
C) Fundo Huishue
D) Antofagasta
  • 90. Who led the military coup in Chile in 1973?
A) Salvador Allende
B) General Augusto Pinochet
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) Brazil
C) India
D) Mexico
  • 93. Which ship did Neruda use to transport Spanish refugees to Chile?
A) The Titanic
B) The Santa María
C) The Queen Mary
D) The Winnipeg
  • 94. Which prestigious award did Neruda receive in 1972?
A) International Peace Prize
B) Golden Wreath Award
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 95. How did Neruda escape Chile?
A) By train
B) On horseback over the Lilpela Pass
C) By plane
D) By boat
  • 96. Which poem did Neruda read at the welcoming ceremony for Fidel Castro?
A) Un canto para Bolívar
B) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
C) Canto general
D) Oda al tomate
  • 97. Who was hired to care for Neruda during his stay in Mexico?
A) Frida Kahlo
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Matilde Urrutia
D) Isabel Allende
  • 98. Who was the Chilean lawyer leading the push for a full investigation into Neruda's death?
A) Eduardo Contreras
B) Artur Lundkvist
C) Mario Carroza
D) Manuel Araya
  • 99. Which country did Pablo Neruda describe raping a woman in 1929?
A) Peru
B) Mexico
C) Argentina
D) Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
  • 100. What illness was Neruda diagnosed with during the 1973 coup d'état?
A) Heart disease
B) Lung cancer
C) Stomach cancer
D) Prostate cancer
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