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. Shelly
(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