Latin American
Literature Quiz
The answers appear after the last question, number 27.
1. What epic is about the conquest of the Araucanian Indians of Chile by the Spaniards?
a. La Hora
b. De nada
c. Cuchillos
d. La Araucana
2. The poet Diego de Hojeda was from what country?
a. Peru
b. Mexico
c. Cuba
d. Chile
3. The dramatist Peralta Barnuevo was from what country?
a. Honduras
b. Mexico
c. Peru
d. Cuba
4. What are costumbrista writings?
a. tales of romance
b. sketches of local customs
c. stories of animals
d. sad poems
5. Who wrote the biographical-social study Facundo?
a. Mario Vargas Llosa
b. Alejo Carpentier
c. Peralta Barnuevo
d. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
6. The novelist Alberto Blest Gana was from what country?
a. Chile
b. Mexico
c. Peru
d. Cuba
7. Who wrote Sin rumbo or Without Direction?
a. Eugenio Cambaceres
b. Mario Benedetti
c. Juan Carlos Onetti
d. Juan Peru
8. What Ecuadorian is the author of Siete tratados or Seven Essays?
a. Enrique Amorim
b. Leopoldo Marechal
c. Juan Montalvo
d. George Vista
9. Who wrote La gloria de Don Ramiro?
a. Juan Carlos Onetti
b. Enrique Larreta
c. Clorinda Matto de Turner
d. Diego de Hojeda
10. Who wrote Aves sin nido?
a. Clorinda Matto de Turner
b. Manuel Rojas
c. Baldomero Lillo
d. Jorge Luis Borges
11. The novelist Federico Gamboa was from what country?
a. Mexico
b. Spain
c. Cuba
d. France
12. What Chilean author wrote Sub terra?
a. Juan Carlos Onetti
b. Adolfo Bioy Casares
c. Leopoldo Marechal
d. Baldomero Lillo
13. What Uruguayan writer wrote Cuentos de la selva?
a. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
b. Horatio Quiroga
c. Clorinda Matto de Turner
d. Eduardo Barrios
14. When was the Mexican Revolution?
a. 1776
b. 1812
c. 1910-20
d. 1066
15. Who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1971?
a. Juan Carlos Onetti
b. Diego de Hojeda
c. Manuel Rojas
d. Pablo Neruda
16. Who was the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature in 1945?
a. Gabriela Mistral
b. Ricardo Guiraldes
c. Baldomero Lillo
d. Jorge Luis Borges
17. What Mexican writer received the 1990 Nobel Prize?
a. Juan Carlos Onetti
b. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
c. Adolfo Bioy Casares
d. Octavio Paz
18. What Argentine novelist wrote Story of a Passion for Argentina?
a. Clorinda Matto de Turner
b. Eduardo Mallea
c. Eduardo Barrios
d. Ricardo Guiraldes
19. Who wrote Don Segundo Sombra?
a. Manuel Rojas
b. Baldomero Lillo
c. Rodolfo Usigli
d. Ricardo Guiraldes
20. What Mexican novelist wrote Los de abajo?
a. Mariano Azuela
b. Juan Carlos Onetti
c. Diego de Hojeda
d. Leopoldo Marechal
21. The writer Alcides Arguedas was from what country?
a. Mexico
b. Cuba
c. Bolivia
d. Peru
22. Who wrote El hermano asno?
a. Mariano Azuela
b. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
c. Jorge Luis Borges
d. Eduardo Barrios
23. Who wrote the novel The Last Mist?
a. Maria Luisa Bombal
b. Clorinda Matto de Turner
c. Manuel Rojas
d. Adolfo Bioy Casares
24. Who wrote Ficciones and Labyrinths?
a. Diego de Hojeda
b. Baldomero Lillo
c. Eduardo Barrios
d. Jorge Luis Borges
25. What Uruguayan novelist wrote El astillero?
a. Juan Carlos Onetti
b. Eduardo Barrios
c. Leopoldo Marechal
d. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
26. Who wrote The Truce?
a. Baldomero Lillo
b. Mario Benedetti
c. Manuel Rojas
d. Adolfo Bioy Casares
27. Who wrote Where the Air Is Clear?
a. Clorinda Matto de Turner
b. Diego de Hojeda
c. Jorge Luis Borges
d. Carlos Fuentes
Answers: 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b, 5-d, 6-a, 7-a, 8-c, 9-b, 10-a, 11-a, 12-d, 13-b, 14-c, 15-d, 16-a, 17-d, 18-b, 19-d, 20-a, 21-c, 22-d, 23-a, 24-d, 25-a, 26-b, 27-d
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