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