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This award-winning Chilean-American writer (born in Peru), whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" ("La casa de los espíritus", 1982) and "City of the Beasts" ("La ciudad de las bestias", 2002), both originally published in Spanish.
4 Isabel Allende quizzes and 40 Isabel Allende trivia questions.
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  The House of the Spirits   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Isabel Allende's astonishing first novel, set in an unnamed South American country, follows the fortunes of one family through four generations.
Average, 10 Qns, JaneofGaunt, Feb 02 09
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  The City of the Beasts    
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A quiz on Allende's first young adult novel. It is based on the Spanish version ("La Ciudad de las Bestias") but all in English. There shouldn't be any major discrepancies, but let me know if there are, as I don't have a copy in English. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, fab4lover, Jul 04 05
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  Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'    
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'Daughter of Fortune' is a wonderful book by Isabel Allende. This quiz is about the book's characters and plot.
Average, 10 Qns, pinkblush2, Mar 07 15
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  Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'    
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This is my second quiz on Isabel Allende's books...this book in particular is called 'Portrait in Sepia'. If you haven't read the book yet go to your local library or bookstore and get it!
Average, 10 Qns, pinkblush2, Jun 29 03
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Lynn Sommers had a job...what was it?

From Quiz "Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'"




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Isabel Allende Trivia Questions

1. Esteban Trueba is engaged to the oldest daughter of the del Valle family, Rosa the Beautiful. What is highly unusual about Rosa?

From Quiz
The House of the Spirits

Answer: Rosa has green hair and yellow eyes

Nivea, Rosa's mother, dreams that this daughter will be beautiful, but in a strange and different way. At Rosa's birth, the midwife screams, then states that Rosa is, "...the most beautiful creature to be born on earth since the days of original sin." Esteban worships his fiancee and works hard as a gold miner to make his fortune so they can marry. Rosa, while perfectly happy to marry Esteban, is somewhat absent-minded and forgetful and spends her time embroidering strange creatures on the largest tablecloth in the world.

2. Alex Cold is a flautist. What relative does he emulate?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: his grandfather

His grandfather, Joseph Cold, was an acclaimed flautist. Kate even gives Joseph's flute to Alex after his own was stolen.

3. What is Eliza and Tao Chi'en's daughter named?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Lynn

They also had a son named Ebinezer aka Lucky.

4. The main character grew up in what country?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: Chile

Eliza was raised in Chile, but later moved to the United States in search of her one true love.

5. Rosa's youngest sister, Clara, announces that there will be a death in the family soon, and that it will be a mistake. She is correct. Who dies?

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: Rosa the Beautiful

Rosa develops a chill and the family doctor recommends bed rest, fluids, and a drop of liquor to bring down the fever. Her father gives permission for Rosa to have some excellent brandy sent to him by supporters of his bid to win a seat in Congress. The brandy is laced with rat poison which kills Rosa. The brandy, of course, was meant for her father as a politically-based assassination attempt, hence Clara's prophecy of "a mistake" comes true. Devastated, following the funeral, Esteban Trueba leaves, not to see the del Valles for the next nine years.

6. Who was the father of Aurora Del Valle?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Matias

Severo married her mother, but her biological father was named Matias.

7. Eliza was raised by Rose and Jeremy Sommers, but who was her real father?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: John Sommers

After Eliza ran off to California, it was revealed that John was her true father.

8. Clara is also rather strange, in that she can foresee events and has certain mental powers. Name the household item that Clara moves with her mind, causing her family to cover up what she's doing when they have company for dinner.

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: The saltcellar

Clara is a happy child; she is clairvoyant and can move objects at will, and has no problem communicating with the various spirits that seem to surround her. Rosa's death, however, and her clandestine witnessing of her sister's autopsy, causes Clara to stop speaking. She is silent for nine years, until the return of Esteban Trueba, who is once more looking for a bride. Clara speaks then, and announces that she is planning to marry.

9. Alex and Nadia overhear a conversation between the trip's sponsor, Mauro Carías, and whom?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: Captain Ariosto

Carías and Ariosto talk about a "plan" that worries the children. Only later do we find that they're not the only ones involved in the devious plan!

10. Lynn Sommers had a job...what was it?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Model

Her mother, Eliza, chaperoned her on all of her modeling jobs.

11. What was the name of Eliza's love?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: Joaquin

Joaquin Andieta ran off and became an outlaw in California.

12. During his nine year absence from the capital city, Esteban Trueba works to rejuvenate his family's country hacienda and land. What is the name of the hacienda?

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: Tres Marias

During his time at Tres Marias, Trueba rebuilds the house and puts the whole estate into working order, turning it into a huge, beautiful, working farm. However, his violent temper and harsh ways do not endear him to his tenants whom he brutalizes, seducing the women and brow-beating the men who dare not turn against their patron. The first woman he rapes at Tres Marias, Pancha Garcia, bears him a son, named for his father, Esteban. The boy grows up hating his father, who has abandoned both him and his mother, and later he sires another boy whom he also names for his hated father. So we have a younger Esteban Garcia, raised to hate the Truebas, and this boy will years later exact savage revenge upon the Truebas.

13. Mid-novel, we find out that Nadia has a phobia. What fear must she overcome?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: fear of heights

Nadia is acrophobic. (Like me!) And yet she must climb up to the tribe's home and also climb up to retrieve her precious eggs. She (unlike me!) has help from her totem animal, the Eagle, while Alex is helped by the Jaguar.

14. With whom was Diego was cheating on his wife, Aurora?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Susana

He was cheating on his wife with his brother's wife! Sounds like a nice guy...yah right.

15. What was the wife of Tao Chi'en's named?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: Lin

Lin died of consumption and Tao mourned for her for years.

16. Clara foresees that she will marry Esteban Trueba, and enters the union willingly, accepting that one part of Trueba's family life will now be part of hers. Who, or what, is this?

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: His sister, Ferula

Ferula has foregone any chance of matrimony by nursing her sick mother, Dona Ester Trueba, so when Dona Ester dies and Trueba marries Clara, Ferula is sick with worry that she has nowhere to go and no-one to care for. Her relationship with her brother is less than loving, so she approaches Clara to see if she could become housekeeper for the newlyweds. Before she can say anything, Clara says, "Don't worry, you're going to live with us and the two of us will be just like sisters." This ensures Ferula's complete devotion to Clara, which leads to problems later.

17. In order to go to the home of the gods with Walimai, Alex must become a man in the eyes of the tribe. What must he do?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: expose his arm to fire ants

Alex's task is to expose his arm to fire ants until he can stand the pain. He must train himself to feel the suffering and not resist it, at which point he is able to withstand said suffering.

18. Paulina tried to spite her husband for having an affair by buying what?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: A bed & Bed

She had it paraded through the city with someone ringing bells.

19. Joaquin changed his last name to what?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: Murieta

He was killed by the law towards the end of the book.

20. At one point, Alex is trying and trying to catch a fish with no success, while Walimai does it easily. What is Nadia's explanation?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: Walimai asks the fish's permission to kill it

Walimai explains to the fish that he is killing it out of necessity, and he thanks it for giving its life so that they may eat and live.

21. Who raised Aurora after her father died and her mother left?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Paulina

Paulina, her grandmother, raised her in Chile.

22. Eliza disguised herself as what on her search for Joaquin?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: A boy

She called herself 'Elias' and pretended she was Joaquin's brother.

23. Nicolas and Jaime, Blanca's twin brothers, grow up to be totally different in every way. Nicolas, the devil-may-care adventurer, and Jaime, who follows which career?

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: Physician

Nicolas tries all sorts of ridiculous business ventures which fail; he travels and learns how to dance flamenco, which he then teaches; he goes to India and returns, setting up an Institute for Union with Nothingness, which horrifies his father, now Senator Trueba, and in one bizarre event, causes Trueba to have a heart attack. When he recovers, he exiles Nicolas to North America, where he finally makes a fortune with another ashram-type academy. Jaime, on the other hand, feels an overwhelming need to help people, so he studies to become a doctor. Sometimes too generous with his time, money, clothes, skills, Jaime becomes a much-loved uncle to young Alba. He also befriends Blanca's long-time love, Pedro Tercero, and he comes to like Alba's boyfriend, Miguel. He also is a good friend of the man who eventually becomes President of the country, and who replaces the government which Trueba has supported all his life. Senator Trueba takes little interest in his children's activities, hence his astonishment at how all three turn out.

24. They come upon El Dorado, the famed City of Gold! What is it really made of?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: iron pyrite

The City of Gold is really an accumulation of Iron Pyrite! But it is still beautiful.

25. Aurora had a little dog named what?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: Caramelo

Caramelo tried to mate with her grandmother's fur coat.

26. Eliza went to which California city?

From Quiz Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune'

Answer: San Francisco

She was one of the many people in search of something...she was searching for love while everyone was searching for wealth.

27. Clara has a premonition of her own death and begins quietly to prepare for it. What does she do with all the jewels that her husband has given her throughout their married life?

From Quiz The House of the Spirits

Answer: Puts them in an old sock and gives them to Blanca

Clara's preoccupation with the spiritual continues, with short breaks during family crises, throughout her life. She can summon spirits, play Chopin without opening the piano lid, and generally drift through life in a distracted fashion. Her husband adores her, and after her death wears mourning for the rest of his life; he also wears her false teeth in a little bag hung around his neck as a reminder that he was the one who had knocked his wife's teeth out in a fit of temper. Blanca and her lover, Pedro Tercero, who is wanted by the revolutionary government, finally escape to Canada and Blanca takes the jewels with her, hoping to save them for Alba.

28. One thing Walimai teaches Alex and Nadia is the law of reciprocation: for everything you take, you give something in return. In their own private quests, what do Alex and Nadia have to leave behind, respectively?

From Quiz The City of the Beasts

Answer: flute and talisman

They have to leave behind some of their most valued possessions to get what they want more: Alex his elixir from the Fountain of Youth, and Nadia her diamond eggs. Alex also gives his compass to Tahama as a gift, and he almost takes home what he thinks are valuable gems.

29. When Paulina had her first tumor, what country did she go to to get it removed?

From Quiz Allende's 'Portrait in Sepia'

Answer: England

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