Q 01/05

Pablo Neruda was a poet and diplomat from which country?

A) Argentina

B) Peru

C) Mexico

D) Chile

Answer · why

D) Chile

He is often called Chile's national poet, and three of his houses there are now museums.

Q 02/05

In which year did Neruda win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A) 1945

B) 1964

C) 1971

D) 1973

Answer · why

C) 1971

Gabriela Mistral, who had encouraged him as a schoolboy, had won Chile's first in 1945.

Q 03/05

Neruda's 1924 collection of love poems is titled Twenty Love Poems and a Song of what?

A) Dawn

B) Longing

C) Farewell

D) Despair

Answer · why

D) Despair

It launched him at 19 and remains the best-selling poetry book in the Spanish language.

Q 04/05

Neruda's surname at birth was what?

A) Basoalto

B) Allende

C) Urrutia

D) Reyes

Answer · why

D) Reyes

He was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto and adopted the pen name around 1920.

Q 05/05

Neruda is thought to have taken his pen name from a poet of which nationality?

A) Russian

B) Polish

C) Hungarian

D) Czech

Answer · why

D) Czech

Jan Neruda is the usual candidate, though the violinist Wilma Neruda, mentioned in A Study in Scarlet, is another theory.