Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quiz
Goodbye Gabriel
With the recent passing of the great and respected
writer, I wanted to take a moment to honor Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez with this
short quiz. The answers can be found in the “Quiz Answers” top tab.
1. Complete the title of one of GarcÍa Márquez’s famous
novels, “Love in the Time of …”
a. Cholera
b. Desperation
c. Solitude
2. Complete the title of one of GarcÍa Márquez’s famous
novels, “One Hundred Years of…”
a. Cholera
b. Love and War
c. Solitude
3. GarcÍa Márquez was born in
a. Colombia
b. Argentina
c. Mexico
4. What prize did he win in 1982?
a. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
b. Franz Kafka Prize
c. Nobel Prize in Literature
5. Gabriel was affectionately known as …
a. Marqo
b. Gabo
c. Papa
6. What city did he call home?
a. Mexico City
b. Bogota
c. Valparaiso
7. Which of the following novellas did GarcÍa Márquez not write?
a. Chronicles of a Death Foretold
b. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
c. The House on Mango Street
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