The Waste Land Study Guide

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"