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

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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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. 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

7. Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?

   A. Percy Shelley
   B. John Keats
   C. William Wordsworth
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8. A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?

   A. psychoanalytic criticism.
   B. Marxist criticism.
   C. New Criticism.
   D. structuralism.

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

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