TS Eliot writes The Waste Land
  • 1. Which year was 'The Waste Land' published?
A) 1930
B) 1910
C) 1945
D) 1922
  • 2. Who is often regarded as the protagonist or central voice in 'The Waste Land'?
A) Tiresias
B) Oedipus
C) Medea
D) Achilles
  • 3. Where was T.S. Eliot born?
A) London, England
B) St. Louis, Missouri
C) Paris, France
D) Dublin, Ireland
  • 4. Who was the dedicatee of 'The Waste Land'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) D.H. Lawrence
C) James Joyce
D) Ezra Pound
  • 5. Which literary movement is 'The Waste Land' often associated with?
A) Metaphysical poetry
B) Romanticism
C) Victorian literature
D) Modernism
  • 6. In 'The Waste Land', what season is repeatedly mentioned?
A) November
B) February
C) April
D) August
  • 7. What is the opening line of 'The Waste Land'?
A) There we shall meet again
B) April is the cruellest month
C) In the room the women come and go
D) Unreal city
  • 8. How many parts does 'The Waste Land' consist of?
A) 3
B) 10
C) 5
D) 7
  • 9. Which poet is mentioned at the beginning of the poem for the line 'sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Alexander Pope
C) John Milton
D) Edmund Spenser
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