Deck 2: Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940: Eliot, Auden, Owen, Becket, and Joyce

Question 1

What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?

A)the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland
B)nothing
C)the meaning of life
D)the reason he is in love

Answer 1

nothing

Question 2

What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?

A)unreal city
B)he do the police in different voices
C)the land of the dead
D)voices in the desert

Answer 2

he do the police in different voices

Question 3

Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions of the poem?

A)pound
B)yeats
C)frost
D)owen

Answer 3

pound

Question 4

Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from?

A)baudelaire's "fleurs du mal"
B)pound's "cantos"
C)conrad's "heart of darkness"
D)milton's "paradise lost"

Question 5

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?

A)what the thunder said
B)a game of chess
C)burial of the dead
D)the fire sermon

Question 6

Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book?

A)the tain
B)from ritual to romance
C)the golden bough
D)the mabinogeon

Question 7

Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?

A)shakespeare's "measure for measure"
B)goldsmith's "the vicar of wakefield"
C)kyd's "spanish tragedy"
D)spenser's "prothalamion"

Question 8

Which Upanishad is part of the reference in the last section?

A)brhadaranyaka upanishad
B)chandogya upanishad.
C)taittiriya upanishad.
D) aitereya upanisha

Question 9

"Hieronymo's mad again." What is the source of this quote?

A)hamlet
B)measure for measure
C)spanish tragedy
D)dward ii

Question 10

What is the first line of the poem "Funeral Blues"?

A)stop all the clocks
B)he was my north
C)cut off the telephone
D)pour away the ocean

Question 11

How was the dog supposed to be prevented from barking?

A)by putting him outside
B)a juicy bone
C)with a muzzle
D)by giving him away

Question 12

What message were the airplanes (or aeroplanes) going to write in the air?

A)directions to the funeral
B)he is dead
C)the deceased's name
D)he was my north

Question 13

What color gloves were the traffic policemen to wear?

A)white satin gloves
B)red satin gloves
C)gray wool gloves
D)black cotton gloves

Question 14

What does Auden want done with the sun?

A)packed up
B)silenced
C)scribbled out
D)dismantled

Question 15

What is the last word of this poem?

A)nothing
B)good
C)dead
D)blues

Question 16

Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself?

A)in hell
B)in heaven
C)in purgatory
D)at home

Question 17

In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell?

A)the dead man's arms
B)the dead man's legs
C)the dead man's smile
D)the dead man's eyes

Question 18

The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess

A)courage and wisdom
B)money
C)good looks
D)religion

Question 19

What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end?

A)return to earth
B)kill the soldier
C)talk more
D)sleep

Question 20

What war does Owen write about?

A)the vietnam war
B)the civil war
C)wwi
D)wwii

Question 21

Who is described as "an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator" in the play Caesar and Cleopatra?

A)caesar
B)belzanor
C)pothinus
D)rufio

Question 22

"Caesar; I come to warn you of a danger, and to make you an offer." Who says so?

A)apollodorus
B)belzanor
C)pothinus
D)rufio

Question 23

Who says, "Only as Caesar's slave have I found real freedom."

A)apollodorus
B)rufio
C)brtiannus
D)ponthius

Question 24

Caesar says "I will send you a beautiful present from Rome". Whom does he refer to?

A)octavius
B)antony
C)musical instrument
D)wine

Question 25

When was Caesar and Cleopatra written?

A)1898
B)1897
C)1868
D)1902

Question 26

Who was King of England in Becket's time?

A)henry ii
B)henry i
C)reginald fitz urse
D)theobald

Question 27

What position does Thomas hold at the time of his murder?

A)chancellor
B)archbishop
C)king
D)exchequer

Question 28

What position has Thomas held in the past?

A)jester
B)exchequer
C)king
D)chancellor

Question 29

How long has Thomas been gone when he returns?

A)fifteen years
B)seven years
C)three years
D)sixteen months

Question 30

Why did Eliot write this play?

A)becket's family asked him to.
B)he wanted to impress his priest.
C)he was commissioned for a festival.
D)he read a book about becket.

Question 31

Why has the Chorus gathered at the top of the play?

A)They have been summoned by Thom
B)they want to murder thomas.
C)their crops have dried up and they need mercy.
D)they sense something bad is going to

Question 32

What medieval image suggests patience?

A)wheel
B)cathedral
C)mountain
D)seasons

Question 33

Mary Boyle is an attractive young woman whose age is

A)21
B)22
C)25
D)20

Question 34

"A principle's a principle", who repeats this dialogue?

A)mary boyle
B)jack boyle
C)joxer delay
D)johnny boyle

Question 35

"There isn't a GOD,there isn't a GOD; if there is HE wouldn't let these things happen". Who utters this?

A)mary boyle
B)jack boyle
C)juno
D)johnny boyle

Question 36

Ah, what can GOD do against the stupidity of O'man! Who says this?

A)mary boyle
B)jack boyle
C)juno
D)johnnyboyle

Question 37

Sean o Casey's original name was_____________.

A)sean casey
B)addison casey
C)abbott casey
D)john casey

Question 38

Sean O' Casey's "Juno and Paycock" is ____________ in a trilogy of plays.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 39

The play "Juno and Paycock" is written on the background of _______ civil war.

A)american
B)scottish
C)british
D)irish

Question 40

Joyce was an important pioneer of the narrative technique known as

A)stream of tension
B)dramatic montage
C)conditioned genesis
D)stream of consciousness

Question 41

The name "Dedalus" makes allusion to

A)the mythological figure who flew too close to the sun and drowned in the ocean
B)the mythological figure who escaped from his island prison by constructing a pair of wings
C)the mythological figure who solved the riddle of the sphinx
D)the mythological figure who devoured his own daughter to prolong his life

Question 42

Stephen's father is

A)both financially inept and a painter
B)a painter
C)financially inept
D)a financial genius

Question 43

As a young boy, Stephen is

A)erudite and cocky
B)insensitive and rambunctious
C)athletic and confident
D)unathletic and shy

Question 44

At Clongowes, Stephen is picked on by a bully named

A)cranly
B)icarus
C)wells
D)parnell

Question 45

While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen has the paper read to him. He hears about the death of

A)lord roxborough
B)winston churchill
C)charles parnell
D)the pope

Question 46

James Joyce was raised in a family that was deeply

A)atheistic
B)protestant
C)buddhist
D)catholic

Question 47

While in the clinic at Clongowes, Stephen is cared for by

A)his mother
B)father arnall
C)brother michael
D)dante

Question 48

As a young boy, Stephen reads and is enraptured by

A)the adventures of huckleberry finn
B)pilgrim's progress
C)the count of monte cristo
D)the canterbury tales

Question 49

Stephen's father manages to get Stephen back into private school. He is to attend

A)clongowes
B)dublin boy's academy
C)eaton
D)belvedere

Question 50

Stephen falls in love with a girl named

A)emma clere
B)vanessa o'keer
C)josie o'veer
D)amanda deere

Question 51

What is Walter Morel's job?

A)collier
B)surgeon
C)writer
D)painter

Question 52

Who is William's fiancée?

A)annie
B)clara
C)lily
D)miriam

Question 53

What does William die of?

A)erysipelas
B)pneumonia
C)heart disease
D)tuberculosis

Question 54

What language does Paul tutor Miriam in?

A)russian
B)french
C)spanish
D)latin

Question 55

What is the name of Morels' coal-mining community?

A)the bottoms
B)the tops
C)the sides
D)hell's row

Question 56

In the eyes of Marlow, what does his journey down the river symbolize?

A)movement in the present
B)movement in the past
C)lack of movement
D)movement into the future

Question 57

The Manager's main interests lie in

A)saving kurtz from the natives
B)amassing wealth
C)stopping slavery
D)expelling marlow from the congo

Question 58

Kurtz's frightening consumption with the Congo is a negative side effect of excessive

A)greed
B)colonization
C)slavery
D)curiosity