Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. Eliot was born in the year:
(a) 1885
(b) 1886
(c) 1887
(d) 1888

2. The place where Eliot was born in :
(a) U.K.
(b) Ireland
(c) Germany
(d) U.S.A.

3. Eliot went to Germany for higher studies in:
(a) 1912
(b) 1914
(c) 1915
(d) 1916

4. Eliot married:
(a) Bennet Elizabeth
(b) Marrian Jones
(c) Lucy Wightman
(d) Vivienne Haigh wood

5. T.S. Eliot won the Noble Prize for literature in :
(a) 1944
(b) 1946
(c) 1942
(d) 1948

6. Eliot's poetry is :
(a) Intellectual and anti-romantic
(b) Spiritual and romantic
(c) Religious and sentimental
(d) Political and satirical

7. Eliot joined the firm of Faber and Faber in :
(a) 1926
(b) 1919
(c) 1920
(d) 1925

8. Prufrock was published in:
(a) 1910
(b) 1911
(c) 1912
(d) 1913

9. Eliot died in the year:
(a) 1966
(b) 1968
(c) 1965
(d) 1967

10. Eliot died at:
(a) London
(b) Paris
(c) Italy
(d) Oxford.

11. The poem 'Prufrocks' is:
(a) Elegy
(b) Ode
(c) Ballad
(d) Monologue

12. Prufrock is an aging:
(a) Romantic
(b) Realist
(c) Athiest
(d) Imagist

13. T.S. Eliot is a poet of:
(a) Elizabethan age
(b) Modern age
(c) Neo-Clasical age
(d) None of these

14. Who was a modern poet?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Wordsworth
(d) T.S. Eliot

15. Who wrote "The Waste Land'?.
(a) Dante
(b) Yeats
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) None of these

16. Satire is an instrument of:
(a) Love
(b) Emotion
(c) Criticism
(d) Appreciation

17. Shakespeare was a poet of:
(a) Victorian Age
(b) Modern Age
(c) Romantic Age
(d) Elizabethan Age

18. Eliot founded "The Criterian-a literary review in :
(a) 1920
(b) 1923
(c) 1922
(d) 1918

19. After leaving America, Eliot settled in:
(a) France
(b) Holland
(c) Germany
(d) England

20. After reaching England, Eliot continued his studies in the University of:
(a) Leeds
(b) Oxford
(c) Cambridge
(d) Manchester

21. Which of the work is not by T.S. Eliot?
(a) Murder in the Cathedral
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) The Cocktail Party
(d) The Animal Farm

22. Which Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is from the book:
(a) Paradise Regained
(b) The Family Reunion
(c) Divinia Commedice
(d) None of these

23. The opening lines of the Poem Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock gives a hint about which the time of the day:
(a) Evening
(b) Afternoon
(c) Morning
(d) Night

24. Lazarus is a:
(a) Dead man
(b) Living man
(c) Rich man
(d) Poor man

25. What does "T.S." stand for in T.S.
Eliot's name?
(a) Tucker Simandle
(b) Theodre Sammons
(c) Thomas Stearns
(d) Ted Samuel

26. Which journal first published some of Eliot's poems?
(a) Yale Review
(b) Jester of Columbia
(c) Dartmouth Jack O' Lantern
(d) Harvard Advocate

27. "Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table,
Let us go, though certain half-deserted streets".
These above lines occur in the composition of:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Gray
(c) Browning
(d) Eliot

28. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in 1915 at the request of which other poet?
(a) Wallace Stevens
(b) William Carlos
(c) Carl Sandburg
(d) Ezra Pound

29. The title of T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is :
(a) Satirical
(b) Humorous
(c) Ironical
(d) Pathetic

30. Name the poet of the poem "Dover Beach":
(a) John Keats
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) John Donne
(d) Matthew Arnold

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