TS Eliot writes The Waste Land
  • 1. Which year was 'The Waste Land' published?
A) 1930
B) 1945
C) 1922
D) 1910
  • 2. Who is often regarded as the protagonist or central voice in 'The Waste Land'?
A) Medea
B) Tiresias
C) Oedipus
D) Achilles
  • 3. Where was T.S. Eliot born?
A) St. Louis, Missouri
B) London, England
C) Dublin, Ireland
D) Paris, France
  • 4. In 'The Waste Land', what season is repeatedly mentioned?
A) August
B) February
C) November
D) April
  • 5. Which literary movement is 'The Waste Land' often associated with?
A) Romanticism
B) Metaphysical poetry
C) Victorian literature
D) Modernism
  • 6. Which poet is mentioned at the beginning of the poem for the line 'sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Edmund Spenser
C) John Milton
D) Alexander Pope
  • 7. Who was the dedicatee of 'The Waste Land'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Ezra Pound
C) James Joyce
D) D.H. Lawrence
  • 8. How many parts does 'The Waste Land' consist of?
A) 5
B) 3
C) 7
D) 10
  • 9. What is the opening line of 'The Waste Land'?
A) In the room the women come and go
B) There we shall meet again
C) April is the cruellest month
D) Unreal city
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