Q. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield
Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940 MCQs and Notes
Q. The narrator is told that he should fear death by:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
water
Q. Magnus Martyr is a:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
church
Q. Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
vienna
Q. "By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
leman
Q. Which month is the "cruellest"?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
april
Q. What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart
Q. In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
collective unconscious that all human beings share
Q. What does gyre mean?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
spiral
Q. Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
theophilus