1.T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (“The better
Craftsman”) which refers to :
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Baudelaire (C) G.M. Hopkins
(D) Dante
Answer: A
2.Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer: D
3. Match the following:
1. The Sage of Concord
2. The Nun of Amherst
3. Mark Twain
4. Old Possum
5. Emily Dickinson
6. R.W. Emerson
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3
Answer: (A)
4. Along the shore of silver streaming Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,…
Fit to deck maidens’ bowers
And crown their paramours
Against their bridal day, which is not long;
Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.
(Spenser’s Prothalamion)
Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily
ironic tone in:
(A) Marianne Moore’s “Spenser’s Ireland”
(B) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”
(C) W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”
(D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land
Answer: (D)
5.Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly
referred to in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?
(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear
(3) Coriolanus
(4) The Tempest
Answer: 2
6.T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism
(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism
Answer: 1
7.Evelyn Waugh once complained that T.S. Eliot Poems, 1909-1925 was
“marvelously good, but very hard to understand,” The most pessimistic
novel Waugh wrote was called ____________ and he owed the title to ___________
1. Black Mischief – “Sweeney among the Nightingales”
2. Scoop – “Morning At the Window”
3. Prancing Nigger – Ash Wednesday
4. A Handful of Dust – The Waste Land
Answer: 4
8.“The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful
application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way
of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering
humanity”. Who was this critic?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate
Answer: A
9.Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the
epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
Answer: 2
10.In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist
“was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a
poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are
the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
Answer: 2
11.Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given
below :
(Plays)
i. Heartbreak House
ii. Loyalties
iii. In the Jungle of Cities
iv. The Family Reunion
(Authors)
1. John Galsworthy
2. Bertolt Brecht
3. T.S. Eliot
4. George Bernard Shaw
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3
Answer: D
12.. Which two of the following plays are mentioned in T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and
Individual Talent ” ?
( A ) Agamemnon ( B ) Antigone ( C ) Othello ( D ) Dr. Faustus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a. ( A ) and ( D ) Only b. ( A ) and ( C ) Only
c. ( B ) and ( C ) Only d. ( B ) and ( D ) Only
Answer:B