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The Waste Land Quiz 1

  • 1. Which month is the "cruellest"?
    •     September
    •     December
    •     April
    •     May

  • 2. Where is the Starnbergersee?
    •     just outside London
    •     in Michigan
    •     in Paris
    •     near Munich

  • 3. "The river sweats...
    •     oil and tar."
    •     fumes and fire."
    •     saffron and lilac."
    •     water."

  • 4. Who is demobbed?
    •     Madame Sosostris
    •     Sweeney
    •     Prufrock
    •     Lil's husband

  • 5. "Demobbed" means:
    •     "killed"
    •     "lynched"
    •     "awarded with a medal of honor"
    •     "released from the army"

  • 6. What battle did Stetson supposedly participate in?
    •     the Battle of Britain
    •     the Battle of the Bulge
    •     Mylae
    •     Waterloo

  • 7. "By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."
    •     the Thames
    •     the Nile
    •     Leman
    •     the Seine

  • 8. Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?
    •     Vienna
    •     Marseilles
    •     Novgorod
    •     Timbuktu

  • 9. Magnus Martyr is a:
    •     church
    •     football stadium
    •     ocean
    •     epic poem

  • 10. The opening section of "The Waste Land" is entitled:
    •     "The Burial of the Dead"
    •     "Death by Water"
    •     "The Fire Sermon"
    •     "Shantih"

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