3 MCQs on the Wasteland

1.In T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the following lines are an example of which Modernist device?

'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? / I never know what you are thinking. Think.' I think we are in rats' alley / Where the dead men lost their bones.'

Literary allusions

Voices/stream of consciousness

 

Irony

Disjointed plot

2. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is divided into five main sections. Which of the following is NOT a section?

• A Game of Chess

• The Fire Sermon

• In Fortune's Hand

• Death by Water

3. The opening line of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, 'April is the cruellest month,' is an allusion to which work of medieval literature?

• The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe

• Le Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory

• The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio