TS eliot Mcq

1. Which of the following poems of T.S. Eliot is based on the legend of the Fisher King? (a) Ash Wednesday (b) The Hollow Men (c) Four Quartets (d) The Waste Land
2. The title of the third section of The Waste Land is ______. (a) The Burial of the Dead (b) The Fire Sermon (c) A Game of Chess (d) What the Thunder Said
3. “April is the cruellest month” – Who wrote this line? (a) W.B. Yeats (b) T.S. Eliot (c) John Keats (d) Matthew Arnold
4. Who coined the term ‘Dissociation of Sensibility’? (a) John Keats (b) Matthew Arnold (c) T.S. Eliot (d) W.B. Yeats
5. In which essay did T.S. Eliot coin the term ‘Objective Correlative’? (a) Tradition and the Individual Talent (b) The Metaphysical Poets (c) The Function of Criticism (d) Hamlet and his Problems
6. In which year was T.S. Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize? (a) 1945 (b) 1946 (c) 1947 (d) 1948
7. From whose play is the title ‘A Game of Chess’ derived in Eliot’s The Waste Land? (a) Jonson (b) Milton (c) Auden (d) Middleton
8. Eliot describes Ganga as ______. (a) Swollen (b) Flowing (c) Sunken (d) Diseased
9. Which work is sometimes referred to as Eliot’s ‘conversion poem’? (a) The Hollow Men (b) Ash Wednesday (c) The Journey of the Magi (d) Four Quartets
10. What was the name of the literary journal founded by T.S. Eliot in 1922? (a) The Egoist (b) The Criterion (c) Times Literary Supplement (d) The Dial
11. Which poem of T.S. Eliot contains the epigraph from Marlowe’s Jew of Malta? (a) Ash Wednesday (b) Portrait of a Lady (c) The Hollow Men (d) Gerontion
12. The last lines of The Hollow Men are ______. (a) “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” (b) “April is the cruellest month” (c) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” (d) “In my beginning is my end”
13. Eliot dominated the literary scene with his seminal works and he came to be known as the ______. (a) Don of 20th century (b) Pope of Russell Square (c) Inspector of Kingston (d) Literary voice of modern age
14. Which of the following is not written by T.S. Eliot? (a) Triumphal March (b) Marina (c) Moments of Vision (d) East Coker
15. Eliot’s first poem written after his conversion to Anglicanism in 1927 is ______. (a) The Hollow Men (b) Ash Wednesday (c) The Journey of the Magi (d) Four Quartets

Answer Key (जैसे paper में दिया था)

Q	Ans
1	d
2	b
3	b
4	c
5	d
6	d
7	d
8	c
9	b
10	b
11	b
12	a
13	b
14	c
15	b