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

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1. 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

2. Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by___________?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Marlowe
   C. Oscar Wilde
   D. T.S. Eliot

3. 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”

4. 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

5. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

   A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
   B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
   C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
   D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

6. What distinguishes morality plays from mystery plays ?

   A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
   B. Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
   C. Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
   D. Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles.

7. The churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral was well-known for its____________?

   A. ruinous condition.
   B. performing bears.
   C. graffiti.
   D. bookshops.

8. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

9. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

   A. Denver
   B. St Louis
   C. Cuba
   D. Toronto

10. 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