1. What nationality is Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Cuban Bolivian Argentine Colombian

2. What did he study during his university years? journalism medicine law literature

3. Aside from his novel writing, what other profession did he take up? teacher lawyer reporter physician

4. What is the title of his first book that got published? Chronicle of a Death Foretold News of a Kidnapping The Autumn of the Patriarch Leaf Storm

5. In what year was he awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? 1982 1990 1978 2000

6. Marquez's novels were most influenced by those of which great American writer? Jack London Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck William Faulkner

7. Marquez established a friendly relationship with which Latin American dictator? Augusto Pinochet Fidel Castro Alfredo Stroessner Jorge Videla

8. What is the name of the mythical village that appears in several of his books? Answer: (One word, starts with 'M')

9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is also a screenwriter. Yes No

10. Which famous Italian actress played the part of Angela Vicario in a movie based on the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' (1987)? Valeria Marini Virna Lisi Maria Grazia Cucinotta Ornella Muti