Q 01/05

Isabel Allende's novels are most often associated with which literary style?

A) Social realism

B) Magical realism

C) Naturalism

D) Surrealism

Answer · why

B) Magical realism

Magical realism, a label she accepts only in part: she calls it overwhelmingly present in The House of the Spirits but says it is missing from several...

Q 02/05

Allende's The House of the Spirits began as a farewell to which dying relative?

A) Stepfather

B) Grandfather

C) Father-in-law

D) Mother

Answer · why

B) Grandfather

Her grandfather: exiled and unable to return to Chile as he lay dying at 99, she wrote to tell him he could go in peace because she remembered everyth...

Q 03/05

Isabel Allende was born in which foreign capital?

A) Caracas

B) Lima

C) Quito

D) Buenos Aires

Answer · why

B) Lima

Lima: her father was a Chilean diplomat stationed in Peru, but the marriage was over by 1945, and her mother took the three small children home to Chi...

Q 04/05

Isabel Allende is often called Salvador Allende's niece, but her father Tomás was actually his what?

A) Second cousin

B) First cousin

C) Nephew

D) Uncle

Answer · why

B) First cousin

First cousin: the president was also her godfather and she saw him at weekends, yet she says he shaped her life mostly through his death, when the 197...

Q 05/05

After the 1973 coup, Allende fled Chile and spent 13 years in exile in which country?

A) Venezuela

B) Mexico

C) Spain

D) Argentina

Answer · why

A) Venezuela

Venezuela: she left Chile for it in 1975 and stayed 13 years, and she says she would never have become a writer had the coup not forced her to leave e...