MCQs on The Waste Land, A Poem by T. S. Eliot

Eliot’s poem ‘Little Gidding’ was published in which year?

(a) 1941

(b) 1944

(d) 1942

Question’s Answer: 1942

In Eliot’s poems ‘water’ represents for which of the following?

(a) Life

(b) Death

(d) Both (b) & (c)

Question’s Answer: Both (b) & (c)

In “The Waste Land”, “Dry bones” signify which of the following?

(a) Spiritual death

(b) Physical Death

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Spiritual death

In “The Waste Land” ‘rats’ represents for which of the following?

(a) Squalor

(b) Corruption of modern Civilization

(d) Both (a) & (b)

Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)

In Eliot’s poetry, ‘fire’ represents for which of the following?

(a) Construction

(b) Death

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Destruction

Eliot’s ‘Ash Wednesday’ is a ______ .

(a) Political Poem

(b) Religious Poem

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Religious Poem

Eliot’s Four Quartets deals with which of the following?

(a) Time and Eternity

(b) Death

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Time and Eternity

The theme of “The Waste Land” is:

(a) Progress of Europe

(b) Rural life

(d) Hollowness of Modern Civilization

Question’s Answer: Hollowness of Modern Civilization

In “The Waste Land”, Eliot says that modern man has become:

(a) God-fearing

(b) Snobbish

(d) Both (b)&(c)

Question’s Answer: Both (b)&(c)

Eliot’s “The Sacred Wood” was published in which year?

(a) 1920

(b) 1921

(d) 1922

Question’s Answer: 1920

Eliot’s pre-Christian decade of literary pre-occupation spreads from:

(a) 1919-27

(b) 1919-29

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1919-28

Which of the following is not a contemporary of Eliot?

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Ezra Pound

(d) William Shakespeare

Question’s Answer: William Shakespeare

Eliot’s ‘After Strange Gods’ was published in which year?

(a) 1936

(b) 1935

(d) 1937

Question’s Answer: 1934

Eliot’s “The Sacred Wood” consists of:

(a) Twenty Essays

(b) Seventeen Essays

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Twenty Essays

In “The Waste Land” Madam Sosostris was a:

(a) Fortune-teller

(b) Religious woman

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Fortune-teller

In Eliot’s poetry, ‘rose’ is a symbol of:

(a) Beauty

(b) Virgin Mary

(d) Both (b) & (c)

Question’s Answer: Both (b) & (c)

In Eliot’s poems, ‘winter’ is the symbol of which of the following?

(a) Death

(b) Rebirth

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Death

Which is not a poem of Eliot?

(a) A Cooking Egg

(b) Ode to a Nightingale

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ode to a Nightingale

Eliot’s literary Essay “On Poetry and Poets” was published in which year?

(a) 1956

(b) 1959

(d) 1957

Question’s Answer: 1957

The modem people are very interested in which of the following?

(a) Church going

(b) Palmistry

(d) Both (b) & (c)

Question’s Answer: Both (b) & (c)

Eliot used ‘rain’ as a symbol of which of the following?

(a) Water

(b) Spiritual Rebirth

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Spiritual Rebirth

In “The Waste Land” ‘red rock’ is a symbol of which of the following?

(a) Hardness

(b) Christian Church

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Christian Church

What is the first phase of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) 1907-1909

(b) 1909-1913

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1907-1909

What is the 4th period of Eliot’s Poetry?

(a) 1925-1935

(b) 1928-1939

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1925-1933

Which period of Eliot’s poetry is known as the period of Eliot’s Christian poetry?

(a) 4th period

(b) 2nd period

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 4th period

Which period of Eliot’s religious poetry is distinguished with the Christian poetry?

(a) 5th period Period

(b) 4th period

(d) 1st period

Question’s Answer: 5th period Period

What is the 3rd period of Eliot’s Poetry?

(a) 1918-1924

(b) 1925-1935

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1918-1925

Eliot was a renowned editor of the magazine named “The Criterion” which was in circulation from __ to _____.

(a) 1921-1938

(b) 1923-1939

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1923-1939

The magazine of which Eliot was an editor was closed because of the outbreak of war in which region?

(a) Europe

(b) Asia

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Europe

Eliot’s themes in the early phase of his poetry are usually ________ .

(a) Rural

(b) Religious

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Urban

Which was written during the 5th period period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) The Dry Salvages

(b) A Cooking Egg

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Dry Salvages

Which is not a poem by Eliot?

(a) The Road Not Taken

(b) The Hollow Men

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Road Not Taken

Which poem was written during the 2nd period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) The Hollow Men

(b) The Waste Land

Question’s Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock

Which poem was written during the 1st period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) Burnt Norton

(b) Sweeney Among the Nightingales

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: None of these

Eliot’s poetic drama “The Family Reunion” was written in which year?

(a) 1938

(b) 1940

(d) 1941

Question’s Answer: 1939

Which poem was written during the 5th period period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) Little Gidding

(b) Animila

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Little Gidding

Eliot’s literary essay “The use of poetry and the use of criticism” was published in which year?

(a) 1932

(b) 1934

(d) 1935

Question’s Answer: 1933

Eliot’s poetic drama “The Rock, a Pageant Play” was written in

(a) 1936

(b) 1935

(d) 1937

Question’s Answer: 1934

Eliot pass away in which year?

(a) 1964

(b) 1965

(d) 1965

Question’s Answer: 1965

Eliot’s writing may be divided under:

(a) Two Heads

(b) Four Heads

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Three Heads

Eliot’s poetic drama “The Cocktail Party” was written in which year?

(a) 1946

(b) 1949

(d) 1950

Question’s Answer: 1950

‘Ash Wednesday’ was published in which year?

(a) 1930

(b) 1929

(d) 1931

Question’s Answer: 1930

‘Four Quarters’ by Eliot was published in which year?

(a) 1943

(b) 1946

(d) 1944

Question’s Answer: 1944

Which was written during the 4th period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) Ash Wednesday

(b) Little Gidding

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ash Wednesday

Eliot’s literary production spreads over:

(a) 45 years

(b) 40 years

(d) 50 years

Question’s Answer: 45 years

S. Eliot poetical career has been divided into:

(a) Four Phases

(b) Three Phases

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Four Phases

Eliot’s poem ‘Ash Wednesday was published in which year?

(a) 1930

(b) 1931

(d) 1933

Question’s Answer: 1930

“The Waste Land” first introduced in _____.

(a) The Shape of Book

(b) A Magazine

(d) On stage

Question’s Answer: A Magazine

Which is not a poem by Eliot?

(a) The Solitary Reaper

(b) The Waste Land

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Solitary Reaper

How many poetic plays were written by Eliot?

(a) Six

(b) Five

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Six

“The Waste Land” was published in which year?

(a) 1921

(b) 1922

(d) 1923

Question’s Answer: 1923

Who wrote “The Waste Land”?

(a) T. S. Eliot

(b) Shelley

(d) John Keats

Question’s Answer: T. S. Eliot

Which is not a poem by Eliot?

(a) Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening

(b) The Hollow men

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening

Who wrote The Love Song of Profrock”?

(a) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(b) T.S. Eliot

(d) William Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men” was published in which year?

(a) 1922

(b) 1924

(d) 1925

Question’s Answer: 1925

The poem The Waste land’ consists of:

(a) 432 lines

(b) 435 lines

(d) 433 lines

Question’s Answer: 433 lines

Which is not a poem of Eliot?

(a) Ash Wednesday

(b) Ode to the West Wind

(d) Tempest

Question’s Answer: Ode to the West Wind

Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton” was published in which year?

(a) 1934

(b) 1935

(d) 1936

Question’s Answer: 1936

Eliot’s poetic drama “Murder in the Cathedral” was published in which year?

(a) 1935

(b) 1934

(d) 1937

Question’s Answer: 1935

What was the Eliot’s period in the Harvard University from?

(a) 1906 to 1910

(b) 1910 to 1915

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1906 to 1910

Eliot’s poem ‘East Coker’ was published in which year?

(a) 1940

(b) 1945

(d) 1942

Question’s Answer: 1940

In what year did Eliot spend a year at the Sorbonne University in Paris after graduating from Harvard?

(a) 1908

(b) 1909

(d) 1910

Question’s Answer: 1910

Eliot’s literary essay “To Criticize the Critic” was published in which year?

(a) 1963

(b) 1965

(d) 1966

Question’s Answer: 1964

Eliot’s poetic drama “The Cocktail Party” was published in which year?

(a) 1949

(b) 1957

(d) 1964

Question’s Answer: 1964

Born in the United States and Eliot eventually settled in which country?

(a) England

(b) France

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: England

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

(d) 1913

Question’s Answer: 1911

Eliot went to Oxford and continued study of philosophy in which year?

(a) 1912

(b) 1913

(d) 1914

Question’s Answer: 1914

Eliot became a recognised figure in which year?

(a) Nineteen-forties (1940’s)

(b) Nineteen-fifties (1950’s)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Nineteen-thirties (1930’s)

On whose suggestion did Eliot cut down his most renowned poem, “The Waste Land”?

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Ezra Pound

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound

Eliot himself was:

(a) English by birth

(b) American by birth

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: American by birth

In what year did Eliot begin work at Lloyds Bank?

(a) 1917

(b) 1919

(d) 1918

Question’s Answer: 1917

In what year did Eliot become a member of the publishing house Faber & Faber?

(a) 1925

(b) 1924

(d) 1927

Question’s Answer: 1925

Eliot became a British citizen in which year?

(a) 1925

(b) 1926

(d) 1927

Question’s Answer: 1927

Eliot embraced the Anglican in which year?

(a) 1925

(b) 1927

(d) 1928

Question’s Answer: 1927

Eliot became a professor of poetry at Harvard in which year?

(a) 1930

(b) 1932

(d) 1931

Question’s Answer: 1932

Eliot received the “Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize” for Literature in which year?

(a) 1946

(b) 1948

(d) 1947

Question’s Answer: 1948

In “The Waste Land” dog stands for which of the following?

(a) Dirtiness

(b) Human Conscience

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Human Conscience

In The Waste Land’ the word “Da” has been used in how many meanings?

(a) Three Meanings

(b) Two Meanings

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Three Meanings

Eliot worked in Lloyds Bank until____

(a) 1924

(b) 1929

(d) 1925

Question’s Answer: 1925

Eliot’s wife pass away in which year?

(a) 1946

(b) 1947

(d) 1949

Question’s Answer: 1947

Eliot happily married Valeric Fletcher in which year?

(a) 1956

(b) 1957

(d) 1958

Question’s Answer: 1957

“The Waste Land” is a philosophical comment on which of the following?

(a) Nineteenth-century

(b) Eighteenth century

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Twentieth century

Eliot was born in which year?

(a) 1884

(b) 1890

(d) 1886

Question’s Answer: 1886

The ancestors of Eliot had originally lived in which of the following countries?

(a) England

(b) Scotland

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: England

In Eliot’s poems, the falling of London Bridge is symbol of the:

(a) Weakness of government

(b) Weakness of people

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Political and spiritual decay of modern Europe

Which is the creation of T. S. Eliot?

(a) The Waste Land

(b) Lyrical Ballads

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Waste Land

Eliot’s poem “Ash Wednesday” was written during which period?

(a) Fourth of Eliot’s poetry

(b) 3rd period of Eliot’s poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Fourth of Eliot’s poetry

Which poem was written during the 4th period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) The Prelude

(b) The Waste Land

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: A Number of Minor and Unfinished Poems

“A Cooking Egg” was written during which period?

(a) 4th period of Eliot’s poetry

(b) 2nd period of Eliot’s poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 3rd period of Eliot’s poetry

The poem “The Waste Land” was written during which period?

(a) 3rd period of Eliot’s poetry

(b) 2nd period of Eliot’s poetry

Question’s Answer: 3rd period of Eliot’s poetry

The poem “Gerontion” by Eliot was written during which period?

(a) 4th period of his poetry

(b) 3rd period of his poetry

(d) 6th period period of his poetry

Question’s Answer: 3rd period of his poetry

Eliot’s poem “Dry Salvages’ was written in which year?

(a) 1940

(b) 1947

(d) 1943

Question’s Answer: 1941

Which poem was written during the 3rd period of Eliot’s poetry?

(a) Portrait of a Lady

(b) The Hollow Men

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Hollow Men

Eliot’s poem ‘Portrait of a Lady’ was written during which y ear?

(a) 1st period of his poetry

(b) 3rd period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 2nd period of his poetry

The poem “Sweeney Among the Nightingale” by Eliot was written during the:

(a) 5th period period of his poetry

(b) 3rd period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 5th period period of his poetry

Eliot’s poetic drama “Murder in the Cathedral” was written in which year?

(a) 1938

(b) 1936

(d) 1935

Question’s Answer: 1935

Eliot’s literary essay “The Idea of a Christian Society” was written in which year?

(a) 1937

(b) 1938

(d) 1940

Question’s Answer: 1939

Eliot’s literary essay “Notes towards a definition of culture” was written in which year?

(a) 1953

(b) 1951

(d) 1948

Question’s Answer: 1948

“Animila” by Eliot was written during the:

(a) 4th period of his poetry

(b) 1st period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 4th period of his poetry

The poem “Choruses from The Rock” by Eliot was written during which period?

(a) 4th period of his poetry

(b) 2nd period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 4th period of his poetry

The poem ‘Marina’ by Eliot was written during the:

(a) 3rd period of his poetry

(b) 4th period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 4th period of his poetry

The poem “Journey of the Magi” by Eliot was written during the

(a) 4th period of his poetry

(b) 5th period period of his poetry

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 4th period of his poetry

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