Pablo Neruda - Quiz
Pablo Neruda
  • 1. Which country was Pablo Neruda from?
A) Chile
B) Mexico
C) Spain
D) Argentina
  • 2. In which year did Pablo Neruda win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1971
B) 1985
C) 1999
D) 1960
  • 3. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work of poetry?
A) Crepusculario
B) Residence on Earth
C) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
D) The Book of Questions
  • 4. What was the title of Neruda's memoir published posthumously in 1974?
A) The Buried Mirror
B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
D) Confieso que he vivido
  • 5. What was Neruda's occupation outside of writing?
A) Surgeon
B) Diplomat
C) Pilot
D) Farmer
  • 6. Which major literary movement was Neruda associated with?
A) Realism
B) Surrealism
C) Romanticism
D) Naturalism
  • 7. What inspired Neruda to write a collection of poems about the sea?
A) A bet he made
B) His love for the ocean
C) A dare from a friend
D) A dream he had
  • 8. What year was Pablo Neruda born in?
A) 1899
B) 1904
C) 1915
D) 1920
  • 9. Which city in Spain did Neruda serve as a consul?
A) Madrid
B) Valencia
C) Seville
D) Barcelona
  • 10. What was Pablo Neruda's birth name?
A) Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Jan Neruda
D) Pablo Neruda
  • 11. In which year did Pablo Neruda publish his first work?
A) 1923
B) 1926
C) 1917
D) 1921
  • 12. What was the title of Pablo Neruda's first published work?
A) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
B) Entusiasmo y perseverancia
C) El habitante y su esperanza
D) Crepusculario
  • 13. Which Nobel Prize-winning poet encouraged Neruda's literary pursuits?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Harold Bloom
C) Eduardo Barrios
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 14. What was controversial about 'Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada'?
A) Its political content
B) Its surrealist style
C) Its autobiographical nature
D) Its eroticism
  • 15. Which city did Neruda move to at the age of 16 to study French?
A) Santiago
B) Temuco
C) Parral
D) Maihue
  • 16. Which publisher was the most important in Chile during Neruda's early career?
A) Eduardo Barrios
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Don Carlos George Nascimento
D) Gabriela Mistral
  • 17. What was the name of Neruda's first wife?
A) Maruca
B) Aurelia Tolrà
C) Gabriela Mistral
D) Rosa Neftalí
  • 18. Which country did Neruda serve as a consul in 1927?
A) Chile
B) Burma
C) Ceylon
D) Java
  • 19. What is the name of the collection that includes many of Neruda's surrealist poems?
A) Residencia en la Tierra
B) Crepusculario
C) Tentativa del hombre infinito
D) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
  • 20. What was the main theme of Neruda's poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) Love and passion
B) Political activism
C) Corruption and exploitation by corporations
D) Nature and beauty
  • 21. Which company did Neruda criticize in his poem 'United Fruit Company'?
A) British East India Company
B) Ford Motors
C) Coca-Cola
D) United Fruit Company
  • 22. What political ideology did Neruda promote through his writings?
A) Communism
B) Socialism
C) Liberalism
D) Fascism
  • 23. Who called Neruda 'the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Eduardo Barrios
C) Harold Bloom
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 24. What was the name of the stadium where Neruda read to 70,000 people?
A) Maule Stadium
B) Chile National Stadium
C) Santiago Stadium
D) Estadio Nacional
  • 25. Which country's Nobel Prize did Neruda win in 1971?
A) Peace
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Physics
  • 26. What was the name of Neruda's half-brother?
A) Carlos
B) Gabriel
C) Rodolfo
D) Salvador
  • 27. What was the name of Neruda's half-sister?
A) Maruca
B) Aurelia
C) Rosa
D) Laura Herminia 'Laurita'
  • 28. What was the name of the poet after whom Neruda is thought to have derived his pen name?
A) Harold Bloom
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Jan Neruda
D) Eduardo Barrios
  • 29. What was the title of Neruda's novel published in 1926?
A) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
B) Crepusculario
C) Residencia en la Tierra
D) El habitante y su esperanza
  • 30. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1923?
A) Tentativa del hombre infinito
B) Crepusculario
C) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
D) Residencia en la Tierra
  • 31. Which city did Neruda work in after Batavia?
A) Singapore
B) Temuco
C) Rangoon
D) Colombo
  • 32. What was the title of Neruda's collection published in 1926?
A) Tentativa del hombre infinito
B) Residencia en la Tierra
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) Colombo
B) Batavia
C) Rangoon
D) Singapore
  • 34. What was the name of the city where Neruda met his first wife?
A) Colombo
B) Batavia
C) Singapore
D) Rangoon
  • 35. What health condition did Neruda's daughter suffer from?
A) Hydrocephalus
B) Diabetes
C) Asthma
D) Cystic fibrosis
  • 36. Where did Neruda's daughter spend most of her life?
A) With her father in Chile
B) With a foster family in the Netherlands
C) With her grandparents in Argentina
D) With her mother in Spain
  • 37. What was the purpose of the Second International Writers' Congress attended by Neruda?
A) To establish a new literary movement
B) To organize a literary festival in Paris
C) To promote the works of Spanish poets
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) Barcelona
B) Paris
C) Monte Carlo
D) Madrid
  • 40. Where did Neruda marry Delia del Carril?
A) Paris
B) Madrid
C) Buenos Aires
D) Tetecala
  • 41. Which ancient site did Neruda visit in Peru?
A) Cusco
B) Lake Titicaca
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) Leon Schidlowsky
B) Mikis Theodorakis
C) Sergio Ortega
D) Michael Gielen
  • 43. What was the initial reported cause of Neruda's death on 23 September 1973?
A) Botulism
B) Prostate cancer
C) Poisoning
D) Heart failure
  • 44. Which novel fictionalized Neruda's stay on the island of Capri?
A) Los versos del capitán
B) Canto General
C) Ardiente Paciencia
D) El cartero de Neruda
  • 45. In which year did the Cultural Committee of Chile's lower house vote to rename Santiago's main airport after Pablo Neruda?
A) 2019
B) 2016
C) November 2018
D) 2017
  • 46. Which event caused a rift between Neruda and Octavio Paz?
A) The fall of the Berlin Wall
B) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
C) The Cuban Missile Crisis
D) The Nazi-Soviet Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact
  • 47. In which year was Pablo Neruda nominated as a candidate for the Chilean presidency?
A) 1972
B) 1970
C) 1969
D) 1971
  • 48. Which Soviet leader did Neruda admire for defeating Nazi Germany?
A) Leon Trotsky
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Lenin
  • 49. How long did Pablo Neruda remain in hiding?
A) 9 months
B) 6 months
C) 13 months
D) 24 months
  • 50. In what year was the investigation into Neruda's death officially launched?
A) 2010
B) 2017
C) 2015
D) 2013
  • 51. What was the relationship between Neruda and Matilde Urrutia?
A) They were siblings
B) They began an affair
C) They were colleagues
D) They were strangers
  • 52. Who was the Chilean judge investigating Neruda's death?
A) Salvador Allende
B) Mario Carroza
C) Manuel Araya
D) Artur Lundkvist
  • 53. Who did Neruda tell Aida Figueroa not to cry for after Che Guevara's death?
A) Salvador Allende
B) Che Guevara
C) Luis Emilio Recabarren
D) Fidel Castro
  • 54. Who helped Pablo Neruda enter Paris?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Frida Kahlo
D) Joan Miró
  • 55. Where did Neruda flee to after escaping Chile?
A) Peru
B) Ecuador
C) Brazil
D) Argentina
  • 56. How did Neruda manage to travel to Europe during his exile?
A) Traveling without a passport
B) Using a fake passport
C) Using his own passport
D) Using Miguel Ángel Asturias' 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) Neruda
B) Il Postino
C) Amores perros
D) La teta asustada
  • 59. What did the Pablo Neruda Foundation argue against the exhumation?
A) Neruda's death was natural
B) The forensic team was unqualified
C) The investigation was biased
D) Araya's claims were unbelievable
  • 60. Which Soviet leader did Neruda regard as 'the great constructor of the future'?
A) Mikhail Kalinin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Leonid Brezhnev
  • 61. What did Martín Espada declare about 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) It is the best love poem ever written
B) It is a masterpiece of nature poetry
C) It is the most innovative poem of the 20th century
D) There is no greater political poem
  • 62. Which Chinese leader did Neruda criticize for 'Mao Tse-Stalinism'?
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Mao Tse-tung
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Sun Yat-sen
  • 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 Stalin Peace Prize
B) The Nobel Prize in Literature
C) The Hugo Award
D) The Lenin Peace Prize
  • 65. Which event did Neruda vigorously denounce in addition to the Vietnam War?
A) The Gulf War
B) The Cuban Missile Crisis
C) The Korean War
D) World War II
  • 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 Johnson Administration
C) The Kennedy Administration
D) The Carter Administration
  • 67. What nickname was given to the Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia?
A) Ley Maldita
B) Ley de la Democracia
C) Ley de la Libertad
D) Ley de la Paz
  • 68. In which year did Neruda return to Chile?
A) 1943
B) 1941
C) 1947
D) 1945
  • 69. How many houses owned by Pablo Neruda are open to the public as museums in Chile?
A) Two
B) Four
C) Three
D) One
  • 70. Who organized the PEN conference that Neruda attended in 1966?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Arthur Miller
C) Carlos Fuentes
D) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
  • 71. What was the main conclusion of the 2018 analysis regarding the bacterium found in Neruda's remains?
A) It was naturally occurring
B) It was a common foodborne pathogen
C) It could possibly be a laboratory-cultivated bacterium
D) It was harmless
  • 72. What was the title of Neruda's dramatic speech in the Chilean senate in 1948?
A) Canto general
B) Yo acuso
C) El pueblo unido
D) La tierra se levanta
  • 73. In which year did Neruda return to Chile to support Salvador Allende's presidential campaign?
A) 1952
B) 1955
C) 1964
D) 1970
  • 74. What did Neruda condemn in 'Alturas de Macchu Picchu'?
A) The slavery that made Macchu Picchu possible
B) The destruction of the environment
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) Salvador Allende
B) Neruda
C) Matilde Urrutia
D) González Videla
  • 76. Who was the President of Chile that Neruda supported in the 1938 election?
A) Gabriel González Videla
B) Pedro Aguirre Cerda
C) Augusto Pinochet
D) Salvador Allende
  • 77. In what year was the musical play 'Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta' created?
A) 1987
B) 1967
C) 1957
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) The marriage was crumbling
B) They were newlyweds
C) They were happily married
D) They were separated
  • 80. What was the cause of death listed for Pablo Neruda?
A) Heart attack
B) Botulism
C) Poisoning
D) Prostate cancer
  • 81. What illness caused Neruda's stay in Mexico to be extended?
A) Pneumonia
B) Malaria
C) Tuberculosis
D) Phlebitis
  • 82. What bacterium was found in Neruda's bloodstream in 2023?
A) Staphylococcus aureus
B) Salmonella
C) Escherichia coli
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) Minister
C) President
D) Poet
  • 85. How many Spanish refugees did Neruda help transport to Chile?
A) 3,000
B) 500
C) 2,000
D) 1,000
  • 86. Who was the president of Peru when Neruda visited in 1966?
A) González Videla
B) Salvador Allende
C) Fernando Belaúnde Terry
D) Fidel Castro
  • 87. Who was the Mexican painter that Neruda helped by arranging a Chilean visa?
A) David Alfaro Siqueiros
B) José Clemente Orozco
C) Diego Rivera
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 88. Which country's president received Neruda during his visit in 1966?
A) Peru
B) Cuba
C) Chile
D) Mexico
  • 89. Where did Neruda move to after Valdivia?
A) Fundo Huishue
B) Copiapó
C) Antofagasta
D) Santiago
  • 90. Who led the military coup in Chile in 1973?
A) General Augusto Pinochet
B) Manuel Araya
C) Salvador Allende
D) Artur Lundkvist
  • 91. Who criticized Neruda for not speaking out against Argentine President Juan Perón?
A) Julio Cortázar
B) Mario Vargas Llosa
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Gabriel García Márquez
  • 92. Which country did Neruda visit that is located in Asia?
A) Brazil
B) India
C) Mexico
D) Argentina
  • 93. Which ship did Neruda use to transport Spanish refugees to Chile?
A) The Titanic
B) The Queen Mary
C) The Santa María
D) The Winnipeg
  • 94. Which prestigious award did Neruda receive in 1972?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) International Peace Prize
C) Golden Wreath Award
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
  • 95. How did Neruda escape Chile?
A) On horseback over the Lilpela Pass
B) By plane
C) By boat
D) By train
  • 96. Which poem did Neruda read at the welcoming ceremony for Fidel Castro?
A) Canto general
B) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
C) Oda al tomate
D) Un canto para Bolívar
  • 97. Who was hired to care for Neruda during his stay in Mexico?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Matilde Urrutia
C) Isabel Allende
D) Frida Kahlo
  • 98. Who was the Chilean lawyer leading the push for a full investigation into Neruda's death?
A) Eduardo Contreras
B) Mario Carroza
C) Artur Lundkvist
D) Manuel Araya
  • 99. Which country did Pablo Neruda describe raping a woman in 1929?
A) Mexico
B) Peru
C) Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
D) Argentina
  • 100. What illness was Neruda diagnosed with during the 1973 coup d'état?
A) Heart disease
B) Lung cancer
C) Prostate cancer
D) Stomach cancer
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