Eliot was influenced by___________________?

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

   A. The Wasteland B. The Hollow men C. East Coker D. Prufrock...

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

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

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

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

5. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from ?

   A. Baudelaire B. Irving Babbit C. Dante D. Laforgue...

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. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?

   A. regional dialect and political critique B. religious symbolism and society comedy C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe...

8. George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?

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

9. Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ?

   A. An avalanche B. Rapids C. The west wind D. Thunder...

10. 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”...