Q. Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
shakespeare\s "measure for measure"
Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 MCQs and Notes
Q. Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
the golden bough
Q. Before it was deleted, the line "Get me a woman, I said; you're too drunk, she said" was part of which section of the poem?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
burial of the dead
Q. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
conrad\s "heart of darkness"
Q. Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions of the poem?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
pound
Q. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
he do the police in different voices
Q. What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
nothing
Q. In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
london
Q. Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
"desolate and empty is the sea"
Q. Who rapes Philomela?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
tereus