Latin American Literature quiz
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How many love poems did Neruda pair with a song of despair?
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What does Dona Flor's first husband return as?
Answer: A ghost
Why: Her first husband, Vadinho, had dropped dead mid-samba in the streets of Salvador during Carnival.
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What completes Neruda's line 'what spring does with the...'?
Answer: Cherry trees
Why: The line is the closing sentence of Poem 14 in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
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What did young Sor Juana cut each time she learned too slowly?
Answer: Her hair
Why: The story comes from her own 1691 Reply to Sister Philothea, a defense of women's right to study.
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In which town is One Hundred Years of Solitude set?
Answer: Macondo
Why: Macondo was a real name first: a banana plantation near Aracataca, the town where García Márquez grew up.
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Who punched García Márquez in Mexico City in 1976?
Answer: Mario Vargas Llosa
Why: The black eye was photographed two days later by Rodrigo Moya, but the pictures stayed unpublished until 2007.
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Which Peruvian shares World Book Day with Cervantes and Shakespeare?
Answer: Inca Garcilaso
Why: Born in Cusco, Garcilaso was the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess.
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