The Hollow Men Quizzes

The Hollow Men Quiz

1 Which is NOT a form found commonly in Modernist poetry?
Irony

Stream of Consciousness

Allusions

Sestina
2 A “tumid” river is:
Foul-smelling

Blocked by sediment

Dry

Overflowing
3 ”We are the hollow men,/We are the stuffed men.” is a
Reference to the Bible

Military chant

Paradox

Nursery rhyme
4 “Bang” as it is used in the poem is an example of:
Onomatopoeia

Simile

Assonance

Synecdoche
5 Which of the following is NOT alluded to in the Hollow Men?
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

The Heart of Darkness

The Gunpowder Plot

The Wasteland
6 T.S. Eliot was reacting to the aftermath of which war?
WWII

The Russian Revolution

The American Civil War

WWI
7 In this poem, eyes symbolize
Judgment

Power

Sadness

Clairvoyance
8 The main landscape of the poem is a
desert

ocean

city

forest
9 Which is NOT a type of failure in "The Hollow Men":
Catastrophe

Amorality

Impotence

Paralysis
10 When Eliot wrote "The Hollow Men" he lived in
London

New York

Paris

Boston
11 Who is “the old guy”?
Guy Fawkes

Colonel Kurtz

T.S. Eliot

God
12 What does the chorus dance around?
A maypole

A bush

A tree

A cactus
13 The overall tone of the poem is
Quizzical

Rapturous

Indifferent

Despairing
14 Which prayer is alluded to in the poem?
Hail Mairy

Our Father

Nicene Creed

The Lord’s Prayer
15 The Shadow represents
The Devil

Illusion

Death

Self-Awareness
16 The last stanza of the poem is an example of
Antiphony

Antihero

Antithesis

Anticlimax
17 The hollow men have lost their ability to
Smell

See

Hear

Touch
18 There are many broken objects in the poem. Which of these is NOT broken?
Column

Stave

Stone

Glass
19 Which is NOT a kingdom in the Hollow Men
the twilight kingdom

death’s other kingdom

the kingdom of heaven

death’s dream kingdom
20 In writing this poem, Eliot was influenced by
Augustine

Wallace Stevens

Whitman

Dante
21 The form of this poem is
Ballad stanza

Blank verse

Free verse

Heroic couplet
22 What does dryness represent?
Guilt

Wittiness

Faithlessness

Abstinence
23 What does hollowness represent?
Loneliness

Stupidity

Anger

Spiritual death
24 What religion did Eliot convert to a few years after writing "The Hollow Men"?
Judaism

Catholicism

Anglicanism

Buddhism
25 What was the purpose of Modernism, according to Eliot?
to destroy the past

to protest

to shake things up

to promote realism

Examine the major themes of T.S Eliot The hollow men

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