Top 80+ Solved Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?
a. jesus christ cannot save us
b. summer cannot last forever
c. the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
d. the heart cannot sustain the mind
Q. Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?
a. timbuktu
b. marseilles
c. novgorod
d. vienna
Q. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:
a. spanish tragedy
b. ovid\s metamorphoses
c. hamlet
d. oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
Q. Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"
a. "the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"
b. "a kiss is just a kiss"
c. "isolde is lost forever"
d. "desolate and empty is the sea"
Q. In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?
a. new york
b. london
c. boston
d. gloucester
Q. What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?
a. the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland
b. nothing
c. the meaning of life
d. the reason he is in love
Q. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?
a. unreal city
b. he do the police in different voices
c. the land of the dead
d. voices in the desert
Q. Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions ofthe poem?
a. pound
b. yeats
c. frost
d. owen
Q. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?
a. baudelaire\s "fleurs du mal"
b. pound\s "cantos"
c. conrad\s "heart of darkness"
d. milton\s "paradise lost"
Q. 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?
a. what the thunder said
b. a game of chess
c. burial of the dead
d. the fire sermon