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