Twentieth Century British Literature Up To 1940 Set 2
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This set of Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Twentieth Century British Literature Up To 1940 Set 2
Q1 | What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?
- the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland
- nothing
- the meaning of life
- the reason he is in love
Q2 | What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?
- unreal city
- he do the police in different voices
- the land of the dead
- voices in the desert
Q3 | Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions ofthe poem?
- pound
- yeats
- frost
- owen
Q4 | Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?
- baudelaire\s "fleurs du mal
- pound\s "cantos
- conrad\s "heart of darkness
- milton\s "paradise lost
Q5 | Before it was deleted, the line "Get me a woman, I said; you're too drunk, she said" was part ofwhich section of the poem?
- what the thunder said
- a game of chess
- burial of the dead
- the fire sermon
Q6 | Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came fromwhich book?
- the tain
- from ritual to romance
- the golden bough
- the mabinogeon
Q7 | Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?
- shakespeare\s "measure for measure
- goldsmith\s "the vicar of wakefield
- kyd\s "spanish tragedy
- spenser\s "prothalamion
Q8 | Which Upanishad is part of the reference in the last section?
- brhadaranyaka upanishad
- chandogya upanishad.
- taittiriya upanishad. d. aitereya upanisha
Q9 | “Hieronymo’s mad again.” What is the source of this quote?
- hamlet
- measure for measure
- spanish tragedy
- dward ii
Q10 | What is the first line of the poem "Funeral Blues"?
- stop all the clocks
- he was my north
- cut off the telephone
- pour away the ocean
Q11 | How was the dog supposed to be prevented from barking?
- by putting him outside
- a juicy bone
- with a muzzle
- by giving him away
Q12 | What message were the airplanes (or aeroplanes) going to write in the air?
- directions to the funeral
- he is dead
- the deceased\s name
- he was my north
Q13 | What color gloves were the traffic policemen to wear?
- white satin gloves
- red satin gloves
- gray wool gloves
- black cotton gloves
Q14 | What does Auden want done with the sun?
- packed up
- silenced
- scribbled out
- dismantled
Q15 | What is the last word of this poem?
- nothing
- good
- dead
- blues
Q16 | Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself?
- in hell
- in heaven
- in purgatory
- at home
Q17 | In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell?
- the dead man\s arms
- the dead man\s legs
- the dead man\s smile
- the dead man\s eyes
Q18 | The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess
- courage and wisdom
- money
- good looks
- religion
Q19 | What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end?
- return to earth
- kill the soldier
- talk more
- sleep
Q20 | What war does Owen write about?
- the vietnam war
- the civil war
- wwi
- wwii
Q21 | Who is described as "an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator" inthe play Caesar and Cleopatra?
- caesar
- belzanor
- pothinus
- rufio
Q22 | Caesar; I come to warn you of a danger, and to make you an offer." Who says so?
- apollodorus
- belzanor
- pothinus
- rufio
Q23 | Who says, "Only as Caesar’s slave have I found real freedom.
- apollodorus
- rufio
- brtiannus
- ponthius
Q24 | Caesar says "I will send you a beautiful present from Rome". Whom does he refer to?
- octavius
- antony
- musical instrument
- wine
Q25 | When was Caesar and Cleopatra written?
- 1898
- 1897
- 1868
- 1902