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:
Overflowing

Blocked by sediment

Dry

Foul-smelling
3 ”We are the hollow men,/We are the stuffed men.” is a
Military chant

Nursery rhyme

Reference to the Bible

Paradox
4 “Bang” as it is used in the poem is an example of:
Synecdoche

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Assonance
5 Which of the following is NOT alluded to in the Hollow Men?
The Gunpowder Plot

The Wasteland

The Heart of Darkness

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

WWI

WWII

The Russian Revolution
7 In this poem, eyes symbolize
Clairvoyance

Judgment

Sadness

Power
8 The main landscape of the poem is a
city

forest

ocean

desert
9 Which is NOT a type of failure in "The Hollow Men":
Paralysis

Amorality

Impotence

Catastrophe
10 When Eliot wrote "The Hollow Men" he lived in
New York

London

Boston

Paris
11 Who is “the old guy”?
Colonel Kurtz

T.S. Eliot

God

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

A tree

A cactus

A maypole
13 The overall tone of the poem is
Despairing

Quizzical

Rapturous

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

Hail Mairy

The Lord’s Prayer

Nicene Creed
15 The Shadow represents
Illusion

Death

The Devil

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

Antihero

Anticlimax

Antithesis
17 The hollow men have lost their ability to
Hear

See

Smell

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

Glass

Stave

Stone
19 Which is NOT a kingdom in the Hollow Men
the kingdom of heaven

death’s dream kingdom

the twilight kingdom

death’s other kingdom
20 In writing this poem, Eliot was influenced by
Dante

Whitman

Augustine

Wallace Stevens
21 The form of this poem is
Heroic couplet

Blank verse

Ballad stanza

Free verse
22 What does dryness represent?
Wittiness

Abstinence

Faithlessness

Guilt
23 What does hollowness represent?
Spiritual death

Loneliness

Anger

Stupidity
24 What religion did Eliot convert to a few years after writing "The Hollow Men"?
Buddhism

Catholicism

Judaism

Anglicanism
25 What was the purpose of Modernism, according to Eliot?
to shake things up

to destroy the past

to promote realism

to protest

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

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Whom does marlow call a hollow man?

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Hollow men

The poem begins with two epigraphs alluding to two examples of "Hollow Men," one from fiction, the other from history. Then we are introduced to the main characters: a group of scarecrows leaning together. These Hollow Men narrate the poem in a...

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