Lusophone Literature
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1.Which Brazilian writer set novels like Gabriela, Cravo e Canela in Bahia?
- A. Jorge Amado
- B. Rachel de Queiroz
- C. Cecília Meireles
- D. Clarice Lispector
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Jorge Amado
Did you know? Jorge Amado served in Brazil's Congress as a communist deputy.
2.Which Lusophone writer wrote the epic Os Lusíadas?
- A. Luís de Camões
- B. Fernando Pessoa
- C. Camilo Castelo Branco
- D. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
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Luís de Camões
Did you know? Os Lusíadas (1572) celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
3.Which Portuguese classic is narrated by a dead man?
- A. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- B. O Primo Basílio
- C. A Cidade e as Serras
- D. Mensagem
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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Did you know? Machado's defunct narrator dedicates the book "to the worm who first gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse".
4.Which short-story collection introduced Guimarães Rosa's sertão prose in 1946?
- A. Grande Sertão: Veredas
- B. Corpo de Baile
- C. Manuelzão e Miguilim
- D. Sagarana
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Sagarana
Did you know? Sagarana (1946) was Rosa's first book of stories.
5.Which Brazilian writer wrote Quarto de Despejo from her diary in a São Paulo favela?
- A. Graciliano Ramos
- B. João Guimarães Rosa
- C. José Lins do Rego
- D. Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Carolina Maria de Jesus
Did you know? Quarto de Despejo (1960) sold over 100,000 copies in its first years.
6.Which Lusophone writer wrote under the heteronyms Alberto Caeiro and Álvaro de Campos?
- A. João Cabral de Melo Neto
- B. Agustina Bessa-Luís
- C. Eça de Queirós
- D. Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa
Did you know? Pessoa published only one book in Portuguese, Mensagem, during his lifetime.
7.Which Portuguese classic sings Vasco da Gama's sea route to India?
- A. A Cidade e as Serras
- B. Os Lusíadas
- C. O Primo Basílio
- D. Dom Casmurro
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Os Lusíadas
Did you know? Os Lusíadas were published in 1572 in ten cantos.
8.Which 1915 Lisbon magazine launched Portuguese modernism alongside Fernando Pessoa?
- A. Atlântico
- B. Presença
- C. Contemporânea
- D. Orpheu
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Orpheu
Did you know? Orpheu's two issues made scandal and history in equal measure.
9.Which Brazilian writer wrote O Guarani and Iracema?
- A. José de Alencar
- B. Carolina Maria de Jesus
- C. Aluísio Azevedo
- D. Graciliano Ramos
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José de Alencar
Did you know? José de Alencar was a senator and a leader of Brazilian Romanticism.
10.Which Lusophone writer wrote Os Maias and O Primo Basílio?
- A. Eça de Queirós
- B. Florbela Espanca
- C. Miguel Torga
- D. Mia Couto
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Eça de Queirós
Did you know? Eça de Queirós served as a Portuguese consul in Newcastle and Paris.
11.Which Portuguese classic is narrated by the jealous Bento Santiago?
- A. O Primo Basílio
- B. Dom Casmurro
- C. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- D. Os Lusíadas
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Dom Casmurro
Did you know? Machado keeps Capitu's supposed betrayal undecided to the last page.
12.Which sertão bandit king lives on in cordel pamphlets and song?
- A. Antônio Conselheiro
- B. Lampião
- C. Padre Cícero
- D. Coronel Delmiro
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Lampião
Did you know? Lampião's exploits fed decades of literatura de cordel.
13.Which Brazilian writer was also a career diplomat as well as a novelist?
- A. João Guimarães Rosa
- B. Lima Barreto
- C. Jorge Amado
- D. Lygia Fagundes Telles
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João Guimarães Rosa
Did you know? Guimarães Rosa served as Brazil's consul in Germany and Colombia.
14.Which Portuguese classic satirizes an adulterous household in 1870s Lisbon?
- A. Amor de Perdição
- B. Mensagem
- C. O Primo Basílio
- D. Dom Casmurro
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O Primo Basílio
Did you know? Eça called O Primo Basílio a "romance de costumes".
15.Which Brazilian writer wrote O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma?
- A. Cora Coralina
- B. Lygia Fagundes Telles
- C. Manuel Bandeira
- D. Lima Barreto
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Lima Barreto
Did you know? Lima Barreto chronicled Rio's suburbs in the early Republic.
16.Which Portuguese classic is Pessoa's only Portuguese book published in his lifetime?
- A. A Cidade e as Serras
- B. Dom Casmurro
- C. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- D. Mensagem
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Mensagem
Did you know? Mensagem (1934) won a Portuguese government prize for its patriotic verse.
17.Which Brazilian writer wrote O Tempo e o Vento?
- A. Jorge Amado
- B. Cora Coralina
- C. Manuel Bandeira
- D. Érico Veríssimo
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Érico Veríssimo
Did you know? Érico Veríssimo led UNESCO's editorial office in Paris.
18.Which Brazilian writer wrote Vidas Secas about a family fleeing drought?
- A. Lima Barreto
- B. Manuel Bandeira
- C. Graciliano Ramos
- D. Cecília Meireles
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Graciliano Ramos
Did you know? Graciliano Ramos was mayor of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas.
19.Which Brazilian writer was born in Ukraine and raised in northeastern Brazil?
- A. Rachel de Queiroz
- B. Machado de Assis
- C. Clarice Lispector
- D. Monteiro Lobato
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Clarice Lispector
Did you know? Clarice Lispector moved to Rio as a schoolgirl and studied law.
20.Which Lusophone writer wrote Morte e Vida Severina?
- A. Rubem Fonseca
- B. Almeida Garrett
- C. João Cabral de Melo Neto
- D. José Saramago
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João Cabral de Melo Neto
Did you know? Morte e Vida Severina is a Christmas auto about retirantes migrating to Recife.
21.Which Portuguese classic follows Jacinto from Parisian boredom to rural Portugal?
- A. Os Maias
- B. A Cidade e as Serras
- C. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- D. Dom Casmurro
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A Cidade e as Serras
Did you know? Eça's late comic novel celebrates the Portuguese countryside.
22.Which playwright wrote O Rei da Vela, staged only in 1967?
- A. Diogo de Assumpção
- B. Oswald de Andrade
- C. Guilherme de Almeida
- D. Nelson Rodrigues
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Oswald de Andrade
Did you know? Oswald's King of the Candle satire finally premiered in 1967 in São Paulo.
23.Which Brazilian writer was the founding president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters?
- A. José de Alencar
- B. Machado de Assis
- C. Clarice Lispector
- D. Cecília Meireles
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Machado de Assis
Did you know? Machado de Assis's sitting room inspired the ABL's headquarters design.
24.Which Lusophone writer won the Prémio Camões in 2004?
- A. Camilo Castelo Branco
- B. António Lobo Antunes
- C. Agustina Bessa-Luís
- D. Pepetela
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Agustina Bessa-Luís
Did you know? Agustina Bessa-Luís published dozens of novels over her career.
25.Which Portuguese classic sets feuding Viseu families against young lovers?
- A. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- B. O Primo Basílio
- C. Mensagem
- D. Amor de Perdição
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Amor de Perdição
Did you know? Camilo wrote Amor de Perdição in about two weeks in exile.
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