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