1. Eliot’s poem ‘Little Gidding’ was published in which year?
(A) 1941
(B) 1944
(C) 1943
(D) 1942
2. In Eliot’s poems ‘water’ represents which of the following?
(A) Life
(B) Death
(C) Generation
(D) Both (b) & (c)
3. In “The Waste Land”, “Dry bones” signify which of the following?
(A) Spiritual death
(B) Physical Death
(C) Mental Death
(D) None of these
4. In “The Waste Land”, ‘rats’ represent which of the following?
(A) Squalor
(B) Corruption of modern Civilization
(C) Corruption of ancient Civilization
(D) Both (a) & (b)
5. In Eliot’s poetry, ‘fire’ represents which of the following?
(A) Construction
(B) Death
(C) Destruction
(D) None of these
6. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday is a ______.
(A) Political Poem
(B) Religious Poem
(C) Mythical Poem
(D) None of these
7. Eliot’s Four Quartets deals with which of the following?
(A) Time and Eternity
(B) Death
(C) Post-War Civilization
(D) None of these
8. The theme of “The Waste Land” is:
(A) Progress of Europe
(B) Rural life
(C) Destruction
(D) Hollowness of Modern Civilization
9. In “The Waste Land”, Eliot says that modern man has become:
(A) God-fearing
(B) Snobbish
(C) Hollow
(D) Both (b) & (c)
10. Eliot’s “The Sacred Wood” was published in which year?
(A) 1920
(B) 1921
(C) 1919
(D) 1922
11. Eliot’s pre-Christian decade of literary pre-occupation spreads from:
(A) 1919–27
(B) 1919–29
(C) 1919–28
(D) None of these
12. Which of the following is not a contemporary of Eliot?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Shakespeare
13. Eliot’s After Strange Gods was published in which year?
(A) 1936
(B) 1935
(C) 1934
(D) 1937
14. Eliot’s “The Sacred Wood” consists of:
(A) Twenty Essays
(B) Seventeen Essays
(C) Sixteen Essays
(D) None of these
15. In “The Waste Land”, Madam Sosostris was a:
(A) Fortune-teller
(B) Religious woman
(C) Nun
(D) None of these
16. In Eliot’s poetry, ‘rose’ is a symbol of:
(A) Beauty
(B) Virgin Mary
(C) Christian Church
(D) Both (b) & (c)
17. In Eliot’s poems, ‘winter’ is the symbol of which of the following?
(A) Death
(B) Rebirth
(C) Barrenness
(D) None of these
18. Which is not a poem of Eliot?
(A) A Cooking Egg
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) The Waste Land
(D) None of these
19. Eliot’s literary essay “On Poetry and Poets” was published in which year?
(A) 1956
(B) 1959
(C) 1958
(D) 1957
20. The modern people are very interested in which of the following?
(A) Church going
(B) Palmistry
(C) Fortune-telling
(D) Both (b) & (c)
21. Eliot used ‘rain’ as a symbol of which of the following?
(A) Water
(B) Spiritual Rebirth
(C) Pleasure
(D) None of these
22. In “The Waste Land”, ‘red rock’ is a symbol of which of the following?
(A) Hardness
(B) Christian Church
(C) Beauty
(D) None of these
23. What is the first phase of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) 1907–1909
(B) 1909–1913
(C) 1905–1909
(D) None of these
24. What is the 4th period of Eliot’s Poetry?
(A) 1925–1935
(B) 1928–1939
(C) 1925–1933
(D) None of these
25. Which period of Eliot’s poetry is known as the period of Eliot’s Christian poetry?
(A) 4th period
(B) 2nd period
(C) 1st period
(D) None of these
26. Which period of Eliot’s religious poetry is distinguished with the Christian poetry?
(A) 5th period
(B) 4th period
(C) 2nd period
(D) 1st period
27. What is the 3rd period of Eliot’s Poetry?
(A) 1918-1924
(B) 1925-1935
(C) 1918-1925
(D) None of these
28. Eliot was a renowned editor of the magazine named “The Criterion” which was in circulation from __ to _____.
(A) 1921-1938
(B) 1923-1939
(C) 1939-1943
(D) None of these
29. The magazine of which Eliot was an editor was closed because of the outbreak of war in which region?
(A) Europe
(B) Asia
(C) France
(D) None of these
30. Eliot’s themes in the early phase of his poetry are usually ________.
(A) Rural
(B) Religious
(C) Urban
(D) None of these
31. Which was written during the 5th period of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) The Dry Salvages
(B) A Cooking Egg
(C) The Preclude
(D) None of these
32. Which is not a poem by Eliot?
(A) The Road Not Taken
(B) The Hollow Men
(C) The Waste Land
(D) None of these
33. Which poem was written during the 2nd period of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) The Hollow Men
(B) The Waste Land
(C) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Answer: (C) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
34. Which poem was written during the 1st period of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) Burnt Norton
(B) Sweeney Among the Nightingales
(C) Mr. Apollinax
(D) None of these
35. Eliot’s poetic drama “The Family Reunion” was written in which year?
(A) 1938
(B) 1940
(C) 1939
(D) 1941
36. Which poem was written during the 5th period of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) Little Gidding
(B) Animila
(C) Marina
(D) None of these
37. Eliot’s literary essay “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism” was published in which year?
(A) 1932
(B) 1934
(C) 1933
(D) 1935
38. Eliot’s poetic drama “The Rock, a Pageant Play” was written in:
(A) 1936
(B) 1935
(C) 1934
(D) 1937
39. Eliot passed away in which year?
(A) 1964
(B) 1965
(C) 1966
(D) 1965
40. Eliot’s writing may be divided under:
(A) Two Heads
(B) Four Heads
(C) Three Heads
(D) None of these
41. Eliot’s poetic drama “The Cocktail Party” was written in which year?
(A) 1946
(B) 1949
(C) 1951
(D) 1950
42. ‘Ash Wednesday’ was published in which year?
(A) 1930
(B) 1929
(C) 1928
(D) 1931
43. ‘Four Quartets’ by Eliot was published in which year?
(A) 1943
(B) 1946
(C) 1945
(D) 1944
44. Which was written during the 4th period of Eliot’s poetry?
(A) Ash Wednesday
(B) Little Gidding
(C) Portrait of a Lady
(D) None of these
45. Eliot’s literary production spreads over:
(A) 45 years
(B) 40 years
(C) 30 years
(D) 50 years
46. T. S. Eliot’s poetical career has been divided into:
(A) Four Phases
(B) Three Phases
(C) Five Phases
(D) None of these
47. Eliot’s poem ‘Ash Wednesday’ was published in which year?
(A) 1930
(B) 1931
(C) 1932
(D) 1933
48. “The Waste Land” was first introduced in:
(A) The Shape of Book
(B) A Magazine
(C) Newspaper
(D) On stage
49. Which is not a poem by Eliot?
(A) The Solitary Reaper
(B) The Waste Land
(C) The Hollow Men
(D) None of these
50. How many poetic plays were written by Eliot?
(A) Six
(B) Five
(C) Eight
(D) None of these
51. Eliot’s poetic drama “The Cocktail Party” was published in which year?
(A) 1949
(B) 1957
(C) 1951
(D) 1964
52. Born in the United States, Eliot eventually settled in which country?
(A) England
(B) France
(C) Scotland
(D) None of these
53. In what year did Eliot return to Harvard to pursue a basic course in philosophy and to learn the Sanskrit language?
(A) 1910
(B) 1914
(C) 1911
(D) 1913
54. Eliot went to Oxford and continued study of philosophy in which year?
(A) 1912
(B) 1913
(C) 1915
(D) 1914
55. Eliot became a recognised figure in which year?
(A) Nineteen-forties (1940’s)
(B) Nineteen-fifties (1950’s)
(C) Nineteen-thirties (1930’s)
(D) None of these
56. On whose suggestion did Eliot cut down his most renowned poem, “The Waste Land”?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Robert Burns
(D) None of these
57. Eliot himself was:
(A) English by birth
(B) American by birth
(C) Spanish by birth
(D) None of these
58. In what year did Eliot begin work at Lloyds Bank?
(A) 1917
(B) 1919
(C) 1915
(D) 1918
59. In what year did Eliot become a member of the publishing house Faber & Faber?
(A) 1925
(B) 1924
(C) 1931
(D) 1927
60. Eliot became a British citizen in which year?
(A) 1925
(B) 1926
(C) 1928
(D) 1927