1. The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. It Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in ____?
A:) December 1922
B:) November 1922
C:) August 1922
D:) January 1923
springline- Correct option: A:) December 1922
2. Eliot's poem combines the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon such as Dante's Divine Comedy and , Buddhism, and the Hindu Upanishads, and_____?
A:) Chaucer
B:) Shakespeare
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Shelley
springline- Correct option: B:) Shakespeare
3. The poem is divided into five sections. The first, ‘The Burial of the Dead’, introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second, ‘A Game of Chess’. ‘The Fire Sermon’, the third section, offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition influenced by Augustine of Hippo and ______?
A:) Christian religion
B:) Roman religion
C:) Eastern religions
D:) Indian religion
springline- Correct option: C:) Eastern religions
4. Eliot probably worked on the text that became The Waste Land for several years preceding its first publication in 1922. A letter to New York lawyer and patron of modernism John Quinn, Eliot wrote that he had ‘a long poem in mind and partly on paper which I am wishful to finish’ in_______?
A:) March 1922
B:) March 1921
C:) May 1922
D:) May 1921
springline- Correct option: D:) May 1921
5. Richard Aldington, in his memoirs, relates that ‘a year or so’ before Eliot read him the manuscript draft of The Waste Land in London, Eliot visited him in the country. While walking through a graveyard, they discussed about the work of ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ which was written by________?
A:) Thomas Gray
B:) James Joyce
C:) William Hazlitt
D:) Thomas Carlyle
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Gray
6. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. He Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914. He became a British citizen in ______?
A:) 1920
B:) 1927
C:) 1930
D:) 1937
springline- Correct option: B:) 1927
7. Who writes: ‘I was surprised to find that Eliot admired something so popular, and then went on to say that if a contemporary poet, conscious of his limitations as Gray evidently was, would concentrate all his gifts on one such poem he might achieve a similar success.’ ?
A:) Aldington
B:) Pound
C:) Peter Ackroyd
D:) John Davy Hayward
springline- Correct option: A:) Aldington
8. Eliot’s, 1922 poem The Waste Land also can be better understood in light of his work as a critic. He had argued that a poet must write ‘programmatic criticism’, that is, a poet should write to advance his own interests rather than to advance ‘historical scholarship’. Viewed from Eliot's critical lens, The Waste Land likely shows his personal despair about ____?
A:) Spiritual
B:) Criticism
C:) World War I
D:) World War II
springline- Correct option: C:) World War I
9. The Waste Land; Eliot was en route to Lausanne, Switzerland, for treatment by Doctor Roger Vittoz, who had been recommended to him by Ottoline Morrell; Vivienne was to stay at a sanatorium just outside Paris. In Hotel Ste. Luce in Lausanne, Eliot produced a 19-page version of the poem. He returned from Lausanne in early January 1922. Eliot later dedicated the poem to _____?
A:) Aldington
B:) Pound
C:) Peter Ackroyd
D:) John Davy Hayward
springline- Correct option: B:) Pound
10. The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the Anglican burial service. It is made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker. The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman, in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German, not ____?
A:) Indian
B:) Roman
C:) American
D:) Russian
springline- Correct option: D:) Russian
11. The Waste Land ; Eliot originally considered entitling the poem He do the Police in Different Voices. In the version of the poem Eliot brought back from Switzerland, the first two sections of the poem—'The Burial of the Dead' and 'A Game of Chess'—appeared under this title. This strange phrase is taken from Charles Dickens' novel ________?
A:) His Friend
B:) Rumor Has It
C:) Our Mutual Friend
D:) The Shortcut In Time
springline- Correct option: C:) Our Mutual Friend
12. The Waste Land ; The structure of the poem is also meant to loosely follow the vegetation myth and Holy Grail folklore surrounding the Fisher King story as outlined by Jessie Weston in her book From Ritual to Romance (1920). Weston's book was so central to the structure of the poem that it was the first text that Eliot cited in his _______?
A:) Points on the Waste Land
B:) Notes on the Waste Land
C:) Criticism on the Waste Land
D:) Introduction on the Waste Land
springline- Correct option: B:) Notes on the Waste Land
13. The Waste Land ; The style of the work in part grows out of Eliot's interest in exploring the possibilities of dramatic monologue. This interest dates back at least as far as ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‘. The Waste Land is not a single monologue like ‘Prufrock’. Instead, it is made up of a wide variety of voices ,sometimes in monologue or__________?
A:) Free Verse
B:) Criticism
C:) dramatic
D:) dialogue
springline- Correct option: D:) dialogue
14. The Waste Land is notable for its seemingly disjointed structure, indicative of the Modernist style of James Joyce's Ulysses. In the Modernist style, Eliot jumps from one voice or image to another without clearly delineating these shifts. He also includes phrases from multiple foreign languages (Latin, Greek, Italian, German, French and Sanskrit), indicative influence of ______?
A:) Pound
B:) James Joyce
C:) Shelley
D:) Shakespeare
springline- Correct option: A:) Pound
15. From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, the boys college preparatory division of Washington University, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was 14 under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Who published The Waste Land?
A:) John Davy Hayward
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) Scofield Thayer
D:) King Charles
springline- Correct option: C:) Scofield Thayer
16. The Waste Land ; The second section is a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey into a desert waste, where the speaker will show the reader ‘something different from either .The almost threatening prophetic tone is mixed with childhood reminiscences about a _______?
A:) Jacinth girl
B:) hyacinth girl
C:) Lillies girl
D:) Figwort girl
springline- Correct option: B:) hyacinth girl
17. The Waste Land ; The third episode in this section describes an imaginative tarot reading, in which some of the cards Eliot includes in the reading are not part of an actual tarot deck. The final episode of the section is the most surreal. The speaker walks through a London populated by ghosts of the dead. He confronts a figure with whom he once fought in a battle that seems to conflate the clashes of World War I with the Punic Wars between Rome and _____?
A:) Madrid
B:) Paris
C:) Barcelona
D:) Carthage
springline- Correct option: D:) Carthage
18. The Waste Land ; The speaker asks the ghostly figure, Stetson, about the fate of a corpse planted in his garden. The episode concludes with a famous line from the preface to Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal (an important collection of Symbolist poetry), accusing the reader of sharing in the poet’s ____________?
A:) modernism
B:) Sins
C:) Emotion
D:) Criticism
springline- Correct option: B:) Sins
19. The Waste Land opens with a reference to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In this case, though, April is not the happy month of pilgrimages and storytelling. It is instead the time when the land should be regenerating after a long _____?
A:) winter
B:) Summer
C:) Strom
D:) Snow season
springline- Correct option: A:) winter
20. The Waste Land ; In the modern world, winter, the time of forgetfulness and numbness, is indeed preferable. Marie’s childhood recollections are also painful: the simple world of cousins, sledding, and coffee in the park has been replaced by a complex set of emotional and political consequences resulting from the war. The topic of memory, particularly when it involves remembering the ______?
A:) World War
B:) hyacinth girl
C:) Soldiers
D:) Dead
springline- Correct option: D:) Dead
21. In his memoir of Eliot, Who comments that the young Eliot ‘would often curl up in the window-seat behind an enormous book, setting the drug of dreams against the pain of living ?
A:) John Davy Hayward
B:) Robert Sencourt
C:) Richard Aldington
D:) James Joyce
springline- Correct option: B:) Robert Sencourt
22. Eliot began to write poetry when he was 14 under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He said the results were gloomy and despairing and he destroyed them. His first published poem, ‘A Fable For Feasters’, was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record in February _______?
A:) 1904
B:) 1905
C:) 1906
D:) 1907
springline- Correct option: B:) 1905
23. After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry with Henri Alban-Fournier. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Whilst a member of the Harvard Graduate School, Eliot met and fell in love with _____?
A:) Anne Lewis
B:) Vivienne
C:) Emily Joyce
D:) Emily Hale
springline- Correct option: D:) Emily Hale
24. On a trip to Paris in August 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, Eliot met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant, and Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a poet at the time, but the two writers soon became friends, with Eliot visiting Joyce whenever he was in Paris. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis also maintained a close friendship, leading to Lewis's later making his well-known portrait painting of Eliot in ___?
A:) 1924
B:) 1934
C:) 1928
D:) 1938
springline- Correct option: D:) 1938
25. The Waste Land ; At the request of Eliot's wife Vivienne, three lines in the A Game of Chess section was removed from the poem. In a late December 1921 letter to Eliot to celebrate the ‘birth’ of the poem, Who wrote a bawdy poem of 48 lines entitled ‘Sage Homme’ in which he identified Eliot as the mother of the poem but compared himself to the midwife ?
A:) Vivienne
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) Emily Hale
D:) John Davy Hayward
springline- Correct option: B:) Ezra Pound
26. One of Eliot's biographers, Who commented that ‘the purposes of [Eliot's conversion] were two-fold. One: the Church of England offered Eliot some hope for himself, and I think Eliot needed some resting place. But secondly, it attached Eliot to the English community and English culture ?
A:) Vivienne
B:) John Davy Hayward
C:) Peter Ackroyd
D:) George Peter
springline- Correct option: C:) Peter Ackroyd
27. From 1946 to 1957, Eliot shared a flat at 19 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea, with his friend John Davy Hayward, who collected and managed Eliot's papers, styling himself ‘Keeper of the Eliot Archive’. Hayward also collected Eliot's pre-Prufrock verse, commercially published after Eliot's death as _____?
A:) Poems Written in Early Youth
B:) Poems of Eliot
C:) Youth Poem of Eliot
D:) Poems Found in Early Youth
springline- Correct option: A:) Poems Written in Early Youth
28. In October 1922, Eliot published ‘The Waste Land’ in The Criterion. Eliot's dedication to il miglior fabbro ('the better craftsman') refers to Ezra Pound's significant hand in editing and reshaping the poem from a longer Eliot manuscript, to the shortened version that appears in publication. It was composed during a period of personal difficulty for Eliot—his marriage was failing, and both he and Vivienne were suffering from _______?
A:) Jaundice
B:) lung disorders
C:) nervous disorders
D:) Joint Pain
springline- Correct option: C:) nervous disorders
29. The Waste Land ; The poem is known for its obscure nature—its slippage between satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time. This structural complexity is one of the reasons why the poem has become a touchstone of modern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, James Joyce's ______?
A:) Ulysses
B:) Ulysses
C:) Dubliners
D:) The Dead
springline- Correct option: A:) Ulysses
30. When Eliot commented ; ‘When I wrote a poem called The Waste Land, some of the more approving critics said that I had expressed ‘the disillusion of a generation’, which is nonsense. I may have expressed for them their own illusion of being disillusioned, but that did not form part of my intention’ ?
A:) 1935
B:) 1922
C:) 1925
D:) 1931
springline- Correct option: D:) 1931