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.
Related Mcqs:
- 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” - Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project ?
A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry. - How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution. - What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?
A. It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period. - T.S. Eliot’s “TheWaste Land” begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
A. “Was it for this-”
B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
D. “April is the cruellest month” - 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” - 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 - Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?
A. Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.
B. Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.
C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.
D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings. - 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 - 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”
