TEST – 23 (T S Eliot)

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QUESTIONS

Q1. Who was the “miglior fabbro” to whom The Waste Land was dedicated?
A. Ezra Pound
B. Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
C. Samuel Beckett
D. Coco Chanel

Q2. Which of these household items is not mentioned in Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?
A. Teacups
B. Pillows
C. Lampshades
D. Coffee spoons

Q3. In Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, who is “the master criminal who can defy the Law”?
A. Macavity
B. Growltiger
C. Bustopher Jones
D. Skimbleshanks

Q4. From where did Eliot borrow the original title for The Waste Land, He Do the Police In Different
Voices?
A. A popular music hall song
B. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
C. Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend
D. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

Q5. Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste Land?
A. Ring-a-roses
B. London Bridge is Falling Down
C. Humpty Dumpty
D. Jack and Jill

Q6. Which of these is a phrase from Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?
A. Do I dare to eat a peach?
B. Do I presume to pare a plum?
C. Do I try to swallow a grape?
D. Do I need to marinade a melon?

Q7. Which religious building is central to Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral?
A. Durham cathedral
B. Salisbury cathedral
C. Westminster cathedral
D. Canterbury cathedral
Q8. Which work is sometimes referred to as Eliot’s "conversion poem"?
A. The Hollow Men
B. Ash Wednesday
C. The Journey of the Magi
D. Whispers of Immortality

Q9. Before becoming established as a towering presence in literature, Eliot worked for a bank.
Which one?
A. NatWest
B. Lloyds
C. Lehman Brothers
D. Abbey National

Q 10. Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song ..." From which author did Eliot borrow this line for
The Waste Land?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Alexander Pope
C. Lord Byron
D. Cole Porter

Q11. What does the TS stand for?

A. Tom “Senior”
B. Tarquin Sutton
C. Thomas Stearns
D. Thomas Sigismund

Q12. "Putting it as modestly as I can, [my poetry] wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England,
and it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d stayed in …”
A. Scotland
B. America
C. Canada
D. Iraq

Q13. Which young man, later to become a poet, did Eliot teach at Highgate school?
A Ted Hughes
B. Seamus Heaney
C. John Betjeman
D. Roger McGough

Q1 4. What was Eliot’s impression of James Joyce when he met him on a trip to Paris?
A. Talentless
B. Arrogant
C. Longwinded
D. Generous
Q15. Which musical is based on one of Eliot’s poetry collections?
A. Cats
B. Sunset Boulevard
C. Blood Brothers
D. Mamma Mia!

Q1 6. Who considered Eliot’s work to be “a very great evil”?

A. Winston Churchill
B. Virginia Woolf
C. CS Lewis
D. Wyndham Lewis

Q17. Which of Eliot’s collections was this review in the 1917 Times Literary Supplement describing?
“The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance
to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to ‘poetry’”.
A. Four Quartets
B. Prufrock and Other Observations
C. Burnt Norton
D. Ash Wednesday

Q18. Who edited The Waste Land?

A. Ezra Pound
B. Wallace Stevens
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Wilfred Owen

Q19. How does J Alfred Prufrock measure the passing of time?

A. With an hourglass
B. With an egg timer
C. By pacing the streets
D. With coffee spoons

Q20. How does The Waste Land end?

A. Hurry up please, it’s time
B. Not with a bang but a whimper
C. And then it was all a dream
D. Shantih shantih shantih

Q21. Eliot was a huge cat lover

A. True
B. False
Q22. Eliot's favorite habit was what?
A. Writing
B. Reading
C. Smoking
D. Long Walks

Q23. Eliot used to smoke for close to how many hours a day?
A. 3
B. 9
C. 12
D. 14

Q24. In his famous poem 'The Wastelands' Eliot uses how many languages?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 6
D. 8

Q25. Eliot was born when?

A.Sep. 26, 1888
B. Nov. 13, 1903
C. June 2, 1879
D. Aug. 43, 2022

Q26. Eliot began school at what prep school?

A. Smith Academy
B. Washington Academy
C. Becky Academy
D. The Andrea School for The Blind

Q27. After Smith Academy where did Eliot attend?

A. Washington University
B. TCU
C. University of Missouri
D. Yale

Q28. Eliot receives his doctorate from _Harvard , a prestigous Ivy League School

True
False

Q29. In what year did Eliot have a nervous breakdown and was forced to leave his job in London?
A. 1921
B. 1922
C. 1931
D. 1955
Q30. Eliot divorces his wife.
A. True
B. False

Q31. After the divorce, Eliot's wife was put in a mental institution where she remained the rest of
her life.
A. True
B. False

Q32. Eliot re-marries in 1957 to Valerie Fletcher who was how many years his junior?
A. 5
B. 20
C. 37
D. 40

Q33. Eliot is cremated at what Crematorium?

A. Golden Greens
B. Blue Lakes
C. Fiery Pits
D. Shambly Shamble's

Q34. Eliot's ashes were put interred at what church?

A. St. Mary's
B. St. Bonaventure's
C. St. Micheal's
D. St. Thomas

Q35. The church which the ashes of Eliot were interred at was in East Cocker, England.
A. True
B. False

Q36. The opening line of the poem The Waste Land , "April is the cruellest month", is an allusion to a
quote from which English poet?
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Milton
C. Philip Sidney
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
Q3 7. The passage in "What The Thunder Said" that begins "Who is the third who walks always
beside you?" was inspired by which event, according to Eliot in his notes?
A. A recurring nightmare that Eliot had
B. A hallucination Eliot's wife had during childbirth
C. The religious concept of the Holy Trinity
D. An account of an explorer's expedition in Antarctica

Q3 8. There are a lot of Shakespearean allusions in The Waste Land , including the line, "Good night
ladies, good night sweet ladies". Which Shakespearean play is this taken from?

A. Antony And Cleopatra

B. Othello
C. Hamlet
D. The Taming of The Shrew

Q. 39.There are also lots of classical allusions in the Waste land . What is the name of the character
who is both male and female?

A. Tiresias
B. Phlebas
C. Philomel
D. Hieronymo

Q40. Which mythological character, referred to in the Waste Land , became a nightingale when she
was raped and her tongue cut out?

A. Tiresias
B. Phlebas
C. Philomel
D. Hieronymo

Q4 1. Eliot mentions a Queen of England and her lover, Leicester, in "The Fire Sermon". Which
Queen is this?

A. Elizabeth II
B. Victoria
C. Elizabeth I
D. Mary I

Q4 2. The section of the poem "The Fire Sermon" takes its name from an important text in which
religion?

A. Buddhism
B. Judaism
C. Christianity
D. Islam
Q4 3. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?

A. He do the Police in Different Voices

B. The Land of the Dead
C. Unreal City
D. Voices in the Desert

Q4 4. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the Waste Land
from?

A. Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

B. Milton's "Paradise Lost"
C. Pound's "Cantos"
D. Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal"

Q. 45.There are many quotations in different languages throughout the Waste Land . Which of these
languages is NOT present in the poem?

A. Greek
B. German
C. Italian
D. Spanish

Q4 6. Which of these cities is NOT mentioned in The Waste Land ?

A. Munich
B. Vienna
C. Alexandria
D. Carthage

Q4 7. Where was Eliot born?

A. Lexington, Massachusetts
B. Jefferson City, Missouri
C. New Bedford, Massachusetts
D. St. Louis, Missouri

Q4 8. What were the names of Eliot's parents?

A. Samuel Eliot and Elizabeth Greenleaf

B. Thomas Lamb Eliot and Henrietta Robins Mack
C. William Greenleaf Eliot and Abigail Adams Cranch
D. Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Champe Stearnes
Q4 9. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in 1915 at the request of
which other poet?

A. Ezra Pound
B. Carl Sandburg
C. Wallace Stevens
D. William Carlos Williams

Q50. Who did Eliot marry in the summer of 1915?

A. Esme Valerie-Fletcher
B. Vivienne Haigh-Wood
C. Joan Aiken
D. Dora Black

Q5 1. Eliot wrote "Ash Wednesday" a few years after his conversion to what religion?

A. Anglican
B. Mormon
C. Presbyterian
D. Jewish

Q5 2. Ezra Pound gave Eliot a nickname which he used as part of the title for a book of poetry for
children. What was his nickname?

A. Blind Weasel
B. Sullen Beaver
C. Old Possum
D. Frail Mongoose

Q. State True or false :-

53. The correct title of poem is The Waste Land and not The Wasteland.

54. The same poem was first published in October in the Dial.

55. Dedication to the Ezra Pound was published in 1925.

56. The epigraph of the poem is in Greek and Latin.

57. The biggest section of this book is The Fire Sermon.

58. What the Thunder Said is the smallest section.

59. The poem The Waste Land doesn’t have a certain narrator.
60. Madam Sisostoris(appears in Burial of the Dead), the clairvoyant is inspired from Aldous Huxley’s
Crome Yellow.

61. Death by Water is the third section in The Waste Land.

62. Eliot contributed 4poems in the Ariel poems.

63. Eliot dedicated his “The Elder Statesman” to his first wife.

64. Portrait of a lady is a prose work by Eliot.

65. The Dry Salvages is the third section of the Four Quartets.

Choose the correct works for the following quotations :-

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock The Sacred Wood The Waste Land
The Hollow Man Burnt Norton East Coker
Tradition and Individual Talent The Cocktail Party Murder in the Cathedral

66. In my beginning is my end.

67. This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

68. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

69. Destiny awaits in the hand of God, not in the hand of Statesmen.

70. Immature poets imitate ; mature poets steal ; bad poets deface ; and good poets make it into
something better, or at least something different.

71. Ambition fortifies the will of Man to become ruler over other men.

72. Unreal City

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn.

73. Every moment is a fresh beginning.

74. Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in the time future.

75. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land

76. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions but an escape from emotions; it is not the
expression of the personality, but an escape from personality.

77. Do I dare to eat a peach?

78. I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

79. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

Q80. Owing to the very high level of competition this time, I know I have to do limitless hard work to
clear this exam. But I am equally determined to do the same. It’s now or never for me. T/F

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