’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?

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. George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?

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

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. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new \mythical method\in place of the old \narrative method\and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about \making the modern world possible for art\ ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

5. 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

6. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?

   A. popular; reverenced
   B. brash; confident
   C. radical; inventive
   D. anxious; haunting

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. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

9. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

   A. popular; reverenced
   B. brash; confident
   C. radical; inventive
   D. anxious; haunting

10. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

    A. FR Leavis
    B. Harold Bloom
    C. William Empson
    D. Mariella Frostrup