‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s__________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?

   A. “A meditation on contradictions”
   B. “Overheard inner speech”
   C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
   D. “Objective correlative”

2. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s__________________?

   A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
   B. Shakespeare’s Tempest
   C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
   D. None of these

3. Eliot was influenced by___________________?

   A. Ezra Pound
   B. Shaw
   C. Hardy
   D. none of these

4. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s________________?

   A. Adam Bede
   B. Middle March
   C. The Mill on the Floss
   D. Silas Morner

5. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?

   A. assistant
   B. director
   C. writer
   D. Editor e… none of these

6. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?

   A. “The Dead”
   B. “The Surrealist Manifesto”
   C. “The Heart of Darkness”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

7. George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?

   A. Gothic novel
   B. Autobiographical novel
   C. Historical novel
   D. Picaresque novel

8. Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project ?

   A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
   B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
   C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
   D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.

9. In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and Individual Talent,” he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?

   A. “Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements”
   B. “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality”
   C. “Continual transformation of the personality”
   D. “Continual identification with the past”

10. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

    A. Curiosity about the past
    B. Deference to the past
    C. Violation of the past
    D. Paradoxically both B and C