Lusophone Literature

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1.Which improvised verse duel, sung with a viola, names a whole Northeastern tradition?
- A. o frevo
- B. o maracatu
- C. a cantoria
- D. a embolada
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a cantoria
Did you know? In the cantoria desafio, paired singers improvise rhymed verses in moral debate.
2.Which Brazilian writer wrote "Poema de Sete Faces"?
- A. Mário de Andrade
- B. Cora Coralina
- C. Machado de Assis
- D. Manuel Bandeira
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Manuel Bandeira
Did you know? Manuel Bandeira bridged Symbolism and Brazilian Modernism.
3.Which Lusophone writer wrote Ensaio sobre a Cegueira?
- A. Almeida Garrett
- B. José Saramago
- C. Miguel Torga
- D. João Cabral de Melo Neto
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José Saramago
Did you know? Saramago's Blindness was adapted into the 2008 film by Fernando Meirelles.
4.Which Portuguese classic chronicles the fall of the Maia family in Lisbon?
- A. O Primo Basílio
- B. Os Maias
- C. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
- D. Os Lusíadas
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Os Maias
Did you know? Eça's Os Maias opens in the Ramalhete house in Lisbon.
5.Which Clarice Lispector novel is narrated around the typist Macabéa?
- A. A Hora da Estrela
- B. A Paixão Segundo G.H.
- C. A Maçã no Escuro
- D. Laços de Família
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A Hora da Estrela
Did you know? Macabéa's story gave Clarice her best-known Brazilian bestseller.
6.Which Brazilian writer wrote Macunaíma, "the hero with no character"?
- A. Cecília Meireles
- B. Jorge Amado
- C. Lygia Fagundes Telles
- D. Mário de Andrade
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Mário de Andrade
Did you know? Mário de Andrade led the 1922 Week of Modern Art in São Paulo.
7.Which Brazilian writer wrote Menino de Engenho about sugar-mill childhood?
- A. Jorge Amado
- B. Érico Veríssimo
- C. Carolina Maria de Jesus
- D. José Lins do Rego
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José Lins do Rego
Did you know? José Lins do Rego's "cane cycle" chronicled the declining sugar estates.
8.Which Brazilian writer wrote O Cortiço, a classic of Brazilian Naturalism?
- A. Aluísio Azevedo
- B. José Lins do Rego
- C. Cecília Meireles
- D. Jorge Amado
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Aluísio Azevedo
Did you know? Aluísio Azevedo left literature for diplomatic service in 1897.
9.Which Brazilian writer wrote Ou Isto ou Aquilo for children?
- A. Cecília Meireles
- B. Oswald de Andrade
- C. João Guimarães Rosa
- D. Lima Barreto
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Cecília Meireles
Did you know? Cecília Meireles's children's verse is a staple of Brazilian schools.
10.Which Brazilian writer was the first woman to enter the Brazilian Academy of Letters?
- A. Machado de Assis
- B. Rachel de Queiroz
- C. Manuel Bandeira
- D. José de Alencar
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Rachel de Queiroz
Did you know? Rachel de Queiroz won the Prêmio Camões in 1993.
11.Which Brazilian writer created the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo books?
- A. Monteiro Lobato
- B. Lima Barreto
- C. Machado de Assis
- D. Clarice Lispector
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Monteiro Lobato
Did you know? Monteiro Lobato also founded Brazil's first major publishing house.
12.Which Brazilian writer wrote the "Manifesto Pau-Brasil"?
- A. Lygia Fagundes Telles
- B. Oswald de Andrade
- C. Érico Veríssimo
- D. Cora Coralina
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Oswald de Andrade
Did you know? Oswald de Andrade's slogan: "Anthropophagy" — devour Europe, digest it Brazilian.
13.Which Brazilian writer won the Prêmio Camões in 2016?
- A. Clarice Lispector
- B. Mário de Andrade
- C. Monteiro Lobato
- D. Lygia Fagundes Telles
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Lygia Fagundes Telles
Did you know? Lygia Fagundes Telles is celebrated for her short stories.
14.Which Lusophone writer wrote Viagens na Minha Terra?
- A. João Cabral de Melo Neto
- B. Pepetela
- C. Fernando Pessoa
- D. Almeida Garrett
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Almeida Garrett
Did you know? Almeida Garrett helped found Portuguese Romantic theatre.
15.Which epic about the Uruguayan campaign is Brazil's first neoclassic epic?
- A. A Confederação dos Tamoios
- B. Iracema
- C. O Uraguai
- D. O Guarani
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O Uraguai
Did you know? Basílio da Gama's O Uraguai (1769) dropped rhyme and classical invocation.
16.Which Brazilian writer published her first book at about seventy-five?
- A. Cora Coralina
- B. José Lins do Rego
- C. Manuel Bandeira
- D. Graciliano Ramos
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Cora Coralina
Did you know? Cora Coralina wrote about Goiás from her sweet shop by the bridge.
17.Which Lusophone writer won the Prémio Camões in 2003?
- A. Eça de Queirós
- B. Mia Couto
- C. João Cabral de Melo Neto
- D. Rubem Fonseca
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Rubem Fonseca
Did you know? Rubem Fonseca is a landmark of Brazilian urban crime fiction.
18.Which Lusophone writer wrote Amor de Perdição?
- A. Pepetela
- B. Florbela Espanca
- C. Fernando Pessoa
- D. Camilo Castelo Branco
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Camilo Castelo Branco
Did you know? Camilo Castelo Branco was created viscount by King Luís I.
19.Which Lusophone writer was the first winner of the Prémio Camões?
- A. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- B. Miguel Torga
- C. Luís de Camões
- D. Eça de Queirós
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Miguel Torga
Did you know? Miguel Torga, a pen name of Adolfo Correia da Rocha, was a doctor as well.
20.Which Lusophone writer won the first Camões Prize given to a woman in 1999?
- A. Miguel Torga
- B. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- C. Mia Couto
- D. António Lobo Antunes
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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Did you know? Sophia wrote the poetry collection O Cristo Cigano.
21.Which Lusophone writer won the Prémio Camões in 1997?
- A. Pepetela
- B. Camilo Castelo Branco
- C. Fernando Pessoa
- D. João Cabral de Melo Neto
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Pepetela
Did you know? Pepetela fought in Angola's independence movement and wrote Mayombe.
22.Which Lusophone writer wrote the Sonetos?
- A. António Lobo Antunes
- B. Mia Couto
- C. Florbela Espanca
- D. Almeida Garrett
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Florbela Espanca
Did you know? Florbela Espanca is a landmark of Portuguese feminine poetry.
23.Which Lusophone writer worked as a psychiatrist during Angola's colonial war?
- A. António Lobo Antunes
- B. Mia Couto
- C. Rubem Fonseca
- D. Pepetela
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António Lobo Antunes
Did you know? Lobo Antunes wrote Os Cus de Judas about that war.
24.Which Lusophone writer won the Prémio Camões in 2013?
- A. Rubem Fonseca
- B. Pepetela
- C. Miguel Torga
- D. Mia Couto
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Mia Couto
Did you know? Mia Couto is Mozambique's most translated author.

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