The Waste Land Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Waste Land Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the cruelest month breed?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Lambs
(c) Lilacs
(d) Love

2. What do the repeated words to Lil reference?
(a) Last call at the bar
(b) Being pregnant about to give birth
(c) The changing seasons
(d) Aging and loss of beauty

3. What does Marie do until late in the night?
(a) Sing
(b) Write
(c) Pray
(d) Read

4. What is wrong with Madame Sosostris?
(a) She has a broken arm
(b) She has a cold
(c) She is losing her talent
(d) She is depressed

5. What do all the people focus on in the Unreal City?
(a) The people in front of them
(b) Their feet
(c) The sky
(d) Their hands

6. What language is used at the end the Burial of the Dead?
(a) English
(b) French
(c) Spanish
(d) German

7. In a Game of Chess, what does the rich woman beg the man in the room to do?
(a) Kiss her
(b) Speak with her
(c) Leave
(d) Declare his love for her

8. What repeated word reference Philomel in a Game of Chess?
(a) Crack
(b) Bang
(c) Slam
(d) Jug

9. What author pens the elegant rag spoken in a Game of Chess?
(a) Gallagher
(b) Emerson
(c) Aristotle
(d) Shakespeare

10. What war ends shortly before the publication of the Burial of the Dead?
(a) The Franco-Prussian War
(b) World War I
(c) The Spanish-American War
(d) World War II

11. Where does the narrator spend his summers?
(a) The Maldahasee
(b) The Sternbergersee
(c) The Tatnoogeese
(d) The Gerbertensee

12. What does the poet say keeps us warm in the winter?
(a) Embraces
(b) Hope
(c) Fires
(d) Snow

13. In the Burial of the Dead, what is drunk at Hofgarten?
(a) Wine
(b) Whiskey
(c) Coffee
(d) Cider

14. What does the narrator call Lil because she is ambivalent about her marriage?
(a) All of the above
(b) A whore
(c) A heathen
(d) A fool

15. What is the relationship between the rich woman and her lover?
(a) Sterile
(b) Strained
(c) Dangerous
(d) Loving

Short Answer Questions

1. In a Game of Chess, what type of perfume does the rich woman own?

2. What insult is given at the end of the Burial of the Dead?

3. What is the relationship between Lil and Albert?

4. Of what does the narrator tell Lil she should be ashamed?

5. What does the narrator warn Lil will happen if she does not give Albert what he wants?

(see the answer keys)

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