The Hollow Men Quizzes

The Hollow Men Quiz

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

Allusions

Stream of Consciousness

Irony
2 A “tumid” river is:
Dry

Foul-smelling

Overflowing

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

Nursery rhyme

Paradox

Military chant
4 “Bang” as it is used in the poem is an example of:
Assonance

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Synecdoche
5 Which of the following is NOT alluded to in the Hollow Men?
The Heart of Darkness

The Gunpowder Plot

The Wasteland

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
6 T.S. Eliot was reacting to the aftermath of which war?
WWII

The Russian Revolution

WWI

The American Civil War
7 In this poem, eyes symbolize
Sadness

Judgment

Power

Clairvoyance
8 The main landscape of the poem is a
city

forest

desert

ocean
9 Which is NOT a type of failure in "The Hollow Men":
Amorality

Catastrophe

Impotence

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

London

Paris

New York
11 Who is “the old guy”?
God

T.S. Eliot

Colonel Kurtz

Guy Fawkes
12 What does the chorus dance around?
A cactus

A tree

A bush

A maypole
13 The overall tone of the poem is
Quizzical

Despairing

Indifferent

Rapturous
14 Which prayer is alluded to in the poem?
Our Father

The Lord’s Prayer

Hail Mairy

Nicene Creed
15 The Shadow represents
Death

Self-Awareness

Illusion

The Devil
16 The last stanza of the poem is an example of
Antithesis

Antihero

Anticlimax

Antiphony
17 The hollow men have lost their ability to
Touch

Smell

Hear

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

Column

Stave

Stone
19 Which is NOT a kingdom in the Hollow Men
death’s other kingdom

death’s dream kingdom

the kingdom of heaven

the twilight kingdom
20 In writing this poem, Eliot was influenced by
Augustine

Whitman

Wallace Stevens

Dante
21 The form of this poem is
Free verse

Blank verse

Heroic couplet

Ballad stanza
22 What does dryness represent?
Abstinence

Faithlessness

Wittiness

Guilt
23 What does hollowness represent?
Stupidity

Spiritual death

Anger

Loneliness
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 promote realism

to shake things up

to destroy the past

to protest

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

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