The Waste Land Quizzes

The Waste Land Quiz 1

1 Which month is the "cruellest"?
April

May

September

December
2 Where is the Starnbergersee?
in Paris

in Michigan

just outside London

near Munich
3 "The river sweats...
oil and tar."

water."

fumes and fire."

saffron and lilac."
4 Who is demobbed?
Madame Sosostris

Sweeney

Lil's husband

Prufrock
5 "Demobbed" means:
"killed"

"awarded with a medal of honor"

"lynched"

"released from the army"
6 What battle did Stetson supposedly participate in?
the Battle of the Bulge

Mylae

the Battle of Britain

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

the Seine

Leman

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

Timbuktu

Vienna

Marseilles
9 Magnus Martyr is a:
church

ocean

football stadium

epic poem
10 The opening section of "The Waste Land" is entitled:
"The Burial of the Dead"

"Death by Water"

"Shantih"

"The Fire Sermon"
11 Who visits the typist?
Mrs. Porter

Prufrock

the young man carbuncular

a Bradford millionaire
12 Who witnesses the visit?
Tiresias

Ezra Pound

Vivienne

Madame Sosostris
13 The clairvoyant is named
Aldous Huxley

Madame Sosostris

Vivienne

Mrs. Porter
14 Mr. Eugenides is a:
poet

witch doctor

filmmaker

merchant
15 Mr. Eugenides invites the Narrator to:
Venice

the Cannon Street Hotel

the Plaza

the Ritz Carlton
16 "the _____ hour"
violet

indigo

turquoise

aqua
17 Who is "throbbing between two lives"?
Mr. Eugenides

Phlebas

Tiresias

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

fire

disease

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?
Tereus

the typist

Odysseus

Zeus
21 Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"
"A kiss is just a kiss"

"Desolate and empty is the sea"

"Isolde is lost forever"

"The ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"
22 Which of the following works of literature does Eliot NOT cite?
The Inferno

On The Road

Hamlet

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

Boston

New York

Gloucester
24 What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?
the reason he is in love

the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland

nothing

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

The title, The Burial of the Dead, speaks to the theme of death and loss and the continuity of suffering and spiritual decay.

Asked by bonface g #509926

Answered by jill d #170087 on 2/21/2024 11:04 AM

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What is the actual setting of the wasteland Eliot describes?

The Waste Land is set in a post war wastelend... a place destroyed by a massive war. The poem was written post WWI.

Asked by tingali

Answered by jill d #170087 on 7/7/2023 10:24 AM

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What does the thunder say? Why does Eliot suggest bringing order to self in a disordered world?

The poem closes with the repetition of the three words the thunder said: "Give, show compassion, and control yourself." This is what will help a disordered world.

Asked by Riya D #1270286

Answered by Aslan on 11/20/2022 6:03 PM

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The Waste Land

by T.S. Eliot

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