The Waste Land Quizzes

The Waste Land Quiz 1

By Damien Chazelle · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed October 26, 2007

1 Which month is the "cruellest"?

December

May

September

April
2 Where is the Starnbergersee?

in Michigan

near Munich

just outside London

in Paris
3 "The river sweats...

saffron and lilac."

fumes and fire."

water."

oil and tar."
4 Who is demobbed?

Sweeney

Lil's husband

Madame Sosostris

Prufrock
5 "Demobbed" means:

"released from the army"

"awarded with a medal of honor"

"killed"

"lynched"
6 What battle did Stetson supposedly participate in?

the Battle of the Bulge

the Battle of Britain

Waterloo

Mylae
7 "By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."

the Thames

Leman

the Nile

the Seine
8 Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?

Vienna

Novgorod

Timbuktu

Marseilles
9 Magnus Martyr is a:

football stadium

church

epic poem

ocean
10 The opening section of "The Waste Land" is entitled:

"Death by Water"

"Shantih"

"The Fire Sermon"

"The Burial of the Dead"
11 Who visits the typist?

the young man carbuncular

Mrs. Porter

Prufrock

a Bradford millionaire
12 Who witnesses the visit?

Madame Sosostris

Ezra Pound

Vivienne

Tiresias
13 The clairvoyant is named

Vivienne

Madame Sosostris

Aldous Huxley

Mrs. Porter
14 Mr. Eugenides is a:

filmmaker

witch doctor

poet

merchant
15 Mr. Eugenides invites the Narrator to:

the Plaza

Venice

the Cannon Street Hotel

the Ritz Carlton
16 "the _____ hour"

aqua

turquoise

indigo

violet
17 Who is "throbbing between two lives"?

Phlebas

Mr. Eugenides

Tiresias

the typist
18 The narrator is told that he should fear death by:

disease

fire

water

starvation
19 "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield

Hamlet

the Koran
20 Who rapes Philomela?

Zeus

the typist

Odysseus

Tereus
21 Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"

"The ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"

"A kiss is just a kiss"

"Isolde is lost forever"

"Desolate and empty is the sea"
22 Which of the following works of literature does Eliot NOT cite?

Hamlet

On The Road

The Inferno

The Spanish Tragedie
23 In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?

Boston

London

Gloucester

New York
24 What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?

the reason he is in love

nothing

the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland

the meaning of life
25 Who is "known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards"?

the typist

Cleopatra

Mrs. Porter

Madame Sosostris

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