Exam on The Waste Land

1. Why is the use of Tiresias in The Waste Land significant?

2. What is the shortest part of The Waste Land?

3. In “Death by Water,” who gets drowned in the sea?

4. When was The Waste Land first published?

5. “Burning burning burning burning” echoes:

6. Which cultural reference is not found in The Waste Land?

7. “Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata” is from:

8. “I had not thought death had undone so many” is from:

9. What are the last words of The Waste Land?

10. Which modernist novelist’s work influenced The Waste Land?

11. Who edited The Waste Land and cut it nearly in half?

12. “Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies” is borrowed from:

13. Which is an example of personification in the poem?

14. The phrase “heap of broken images” symbolizes:

15. Madame Sosostris is described as:

16. The bar conversation in “A Game of Chess” highlights:

17. The song “O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag” illustrates:

18. The phrase “HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME” comes from:

19. The typist scene is narrated by:

20. Which season begins the poem?

21. The recurring theme of fire suggests:

22. “April is the cruellest month” is ironic because:

23. Who narrates The Waste Land?

24. What tone best describes the poem?

25. Which two magazines first published the poem simultaneously?

26. Before edits by Pound, Eliot’s working title was:

27. In the epigraph, the Sibyl is trapped in a:

28. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” appears in which section of The Waste Land?

29. In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear?

30. Philomela has been transformed into: