Lesson 3.3.2

3.3.2 Modernist poet: T S Eliot (Selected Poems) Quiz: Pearson Edexcel English Literature, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which phrase opens T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?

    • In the room
    • Shall I part
    • Let us go then
    • Time to turn back

  2. With what item does Prufrock claim to have measured out his life?

    • Pocket watches
    • Measuring tapes
    • Coffee spoons
    • Hourglasses

  3. How many sections does The Waste Land have in the spec's selection?

    • Three
    • Five
    • Nine
    • Seven

  4. Which section of T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' is titled 'The Fire Sermon'?

    • Section III
    • Section I
    • Section IV
    • Section II

  5. Which month is described as 'the cruellest month' in the opening line of 'The Waste Land'?

    • May
    • November
    • April
    • December

  6. Which T. S. Eliot poem ends with the line 'Not with a bang but a whimper'?

    • Gerontion
    • The Hollow Men
    • The Waste Land
    • Ash-Wednesday

  7. Which T. S. Eliot poem begins with the line 'A cold coming we had of it'?

    • Gerontion
    • Ash Wednesday
    • The Waste Land
    • Journey of the Magi

  8. What does the title of T. S. Eliot's poem 'Gerontion' literally mean in Greek?

    • Young soldier
    • Blind prophet
    • Little old man
    • Wise king

  9. In which year was Eliot's essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' published?

    • 1900
    • 1922
    • 1936
    • 1919

  10. Which 1930 poem was T. S. Eliot's first major work following his Anglican conversion?

    • The Waste Land
    • Gerontion
    • Ash-Wednesday
    • The Hollow Men

  11. Which device is repeatedly used in 'Prufrock' to show the speaker's indecision and anxiety?

    • Heroic couplets
    • Blank verse
    • Iambic heptameter
    • Rhetorical questions

  12. Why is the opening line 'April is the cruellest month' ironic in 'The Waste Land'?

    • April brings winter
    • April marks death
    • Spring brings harvest
    • Spring brings memory

  13. In 'The Hollow Men', what material fills the headpieces of the spiritually empty figures?

    • Dust
    • Ashes
    • Straw
    • Sand

  14. Which natural element is absent in 'The Waste Land' to symbolise spiritual sterility?

    • Wind
    • Sunlight
    • Rock
    • Water

  15. Who is the speaker in T. S. Eliot's poem 'Journey of the Magi'?

    • King Herod
    • An aging Magus
    • The infant Christ
    • A Roman soldier

  16. What name did T. S. Eliot give to using ancient myth to structure modern fragmentation?

    • Negative capability
    • Stream of consciousness
    • Objective correlative
    • The mythic method

  17. Which Shakespearean character does Prufrock explicitly state he is not in Eliot's poem?

    • King Lear
    • Prince Hamlet
    • Macbeth
    • Othello

  18. From which ancient language is the repeated closing phrase 'Shantih shantih shantih' taken?

    • Sanskrit
    • Greek
    • Latin
    • Hebrew

  19. What term did Eliot use for a set of objects evoking a specific emotion?

    • Objective correlative
    • Pathetic fallacy
    • Dissociation of sensibility
    • Mythic method

  20. Which Christian denomination did T. S. Eliot join when he converted in 1927?

    • Presbyterian
    • Church of England
    • Methodist
    • Roman Catholic

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