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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. Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” ?

   A. Some academic scholars suggest that “TheWasteland” is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.
   B. “The Wasteland” is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.
   C. Eliot’s poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.
   D. “The Wasteland” is often used as an excellent example of poetic realism.

3. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

   A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
   B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
   C. All of the above
   D. A and B only

4. 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

5. George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?

   A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?
   B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
   C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
   D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?

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

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

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

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