The hollow Men
By T.S. Eliot
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1. THE POEM DEALS WITH:
A. ROMANTICISM
B. CLASSICISM
C. MODERNISM
D. MEDIEVAL THEMES
2. WHAT DOES THE 'HOLLOWNESS' IN THE POEM REPRESENT?
A. LONELINESS
B. SPIRITUAL DEATH
C. STUPIDITY
D. WRATH
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3. AFTER WRITING THIS POEM TO WHICH RELIGION ELIOT SOUGHT
REFUGE?
A. HINDUISM
B. BUDDHISM.
C. CATHOLICISM
D. ANGLICANISM
4. WHAT DOES THE 'HOLLOWNESS' IN THE POEM REPRESENT?
A. LONELINESS
B. SPIRITUAL DEATH
C. STUPIDITY
D. WRATH
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5. WHAT IS THE FORM OF THE POEM?
A. BLANK VERSE
B. FREE VERSE
C. ELEGY
D. HEROIC COUPLET.
6. WHICH OF THE AFTER DEATH PLACE IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE
POEM?
A. DEATH'S DREAM KINGDOM
B. DEATH'S TWILIGHT KINGDOM
C. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
D. DEATH'S OTHER KINGDOM
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7. THE SENSE THAT THE HOLLOW MEN HAVE LOST IS:
A. HEARING
B. VISION
C. TASTE
D. EMOTION
8. 'PRICKLY PEAR' IS A TYPE OF:
A. A CACTUS
B. A MAYPOLE
C. A MULBERRY
D. A BUSH
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9. WHO IS REFERRED TO AS THE 'OLD GUY' IN THE EPIGRAPH OF THE
POEM:
A. GUY FAWKES
C. MISTAH KURTZ
B. JESUS CHRIST
D. ELIOT HIMSELF.
10. WHICH TYPE OF CHARACTERISTICS CAN NOT BE SEEN AMONG
THE HOLLOW MEN?
A. IMMORALITY
B. LACK OF JUDGMENT
C. PARALYSIS
D. CATASTROPHE
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11. AFTER WHICH WAR THE POEM WAS WRITTEN?
A. WORLD WAR 2
B. SPANISH CIVIL WAR
C. WORLD WAR 1
D. AMERICAN WAR.
12. " THE EYES ARE NOT HERE" - FIGURE OF SPEECH USED HERE:
A. METONYMY
B. SYNECDOCHE
C. HYPERBOLE
D. PARABLE
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13. THE WORD 'BANG' IS AN EXAMPLE OF:
A. ASSONANCE
B. ONOMATOPOEIA
C. SIMILE
D METAPHOR.
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14. "HERE WE GO 'ROUND THE PRICKLY PEAR... IN THE MORNING." -
LITERARY DEVICE USED HERE:
A. ALLITERATION
B. ASSONANCE
C. IRONY
D. CLIMAX
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15. "THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS/.../NOT WITH A BANG BUT A
WHIMPER." THE FIGURE OF SPEECH USED HERE IS:
A. IRONY
B. CLIMAX
C. ANTI- CLIMAX
D. PERIPHRASIS
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16. THE SETTING OF THE POEM IS:
A. THE LAND OF THE DEAD
B. DESSERT BY A SWOLLEN RIVER
C. A BARREN FIELD
D. CACTUS LAND
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17. THEIR WHISPERS ARE COMPARED TO:
A. THE WIND
B. DRY CELLAR.
C. DRY GRASS
D. RAT'S FEET OVER BROKEN GLASS
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18. "AS WIND IN DRY GRASS" FIGURE OF SPEECH USED HERE-
A. METAPHOR
B.ALLUSION
C. SIMILE
D. SYNECDOCHE
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19. "THOSE WHO HAVE CROSSED/ WITH DIRECT EYES..." THE DIRECT
EYES' REFER TO:
A. THE MEN OF ACTION
B. HOLLOW MEN
C. GOD
D. CHARON
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20. THE HEADPIECE IS FILLED WITH:
A. STRAW
C. IMAGINATION
B. GREEN GRASS
D. GREED
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CONCEPT.
THE TITLE OF THE POEM IS A COMBINATION OF : TWO POEMS
NAMELY, THE HOLLOW LAND (WILLIAM MORRIS) AND THE BROKEN
MAN (RUDYARD KIPLING).
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21. THE ENDING OF THE POEM INDICATES:
A. POSITIVITY AND TRIUMPH
B. RESTORATION OF FAITH
C. THE ENDING OF THE WORLD
D. FEAR AND PERPETUAL DAMNATION
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22. WHOSE NAME IS REFERRED WITH THE GUN POWDER INCIDENT?
A. MISTAH KURTZ
B. BRUTUS
C. GUY FAWKES
D. DENNY DEEVER
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23. "………………..THE TUMID RIVER" THE RIVER REFERRED TO HERE
IS:
A. STYX
B. LETHE
C. THE AMAZON
D. YAMUNA
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24. THE PHRASE 'HOLLOW MEN' CAN BE FOUND IN SHAKESPEARE'S
PLAY:
A. HAMLET
B. MACBETH
С. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
D. JULIUS CAESAR
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25. "MISTAH KURTZ-HE DEAD" - FIGURE OF SPEECH USED HERE IS:
A. APOSTROPHE
B. ALLUSION
C. METONYMY
D. FABLE
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26. THE HEART OF DARKNESS WAS PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR:
A. 1798
B. 1898
С. 1900
D. 1899
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27. THE SECOND EPIGRAPH HAS THE REFERENCE OF WHICH
HISTORICAL EVENT?
A. MISTAH KURTZ'S DEATH
B. GUN POWDER PLOT
C. EXECUTION OF JAMES-1
D. GUY FAWKES'S BIRTHDAY
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28. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HOLLOW MEN ARE:
A. THEY ARE FRUSTRATED
B. THEY ARE UNFRUITFUL
C. THEY ARE LIVING A LIFE IN DEATH
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
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29. THE FIRST EPIGRAPH DEALS WITH:
A. THE GUN-POWDER PLOT
B. CONRAD'S THE HEART OF DARKNESS
C. KIPLING'S DENNY DEEVER
D. JULIUS CAESAR.
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30. WHICH LITERARY PIECE HAS THE MOST IMPORTANT EFFECT ON
THIS POEM?
A. DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY
B. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST
C. SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR
D. CONRAD'S THE HEART OF DARKNESS
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31. WHEN WAS THE POEM THE HOLLOW MEN PUBLISHED?
A. 1922
B. 1923
C.1921
D. 1925
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32. WHICH IS NOT A TYPE OF FAILURE IN "THE HOLLOW MEN":
A. CATASTROPHE
B. PARALYSIS
C. AMORALITY
D. IMPOTENCE
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33. WHEN ELIOT WROTE "THE HOLLOW MEN" HE LIVED IN
A. PARIS
B. NEW YORK
C. BOSTON
D. LONDON
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34. THE OVERALL TONE OF THE POEM IS
A. INDIFFERENT
B. QUIZZICAL
C. DESPAIRING
D. RAPTUROUS
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35. WHICH PRAYER IS ALLUDED TO IN THE POEM?
A. NICENE CREED
B. THE LORD’S PRAYER
C. OUR FATHER
D. HAIL MAIRY
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36. THE HOLLOW MEN HAVE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO
A. HEAR
B. SEE
C. SMELL
D. TOUCH
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37. THERE ARE MANY BROKEN OBJECTS IN THE POEM. WHICH OF
THESE IS NOT BROKEN?
A. GLASS
B. STAVE
C. STONE
D. COLUMN
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38. WHAT DOES DRYNESS REPRESENT?
A. FAITHLESSNESS
B. WITTINESS
B. GUILT
C. ABSTINENCE
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39. WHAT DOES HOLLOWNESS REPRESENT?
A. LONELINESS
B. ANGER
C. STUPIDITY
D. SPIRITUAL DEATH
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40. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF MODERNISM, ACCORDING TO
ELIOT?
A. TO PROMOTE REALISM
B. TO DESTROY THE PAST
C. TO PROTEST
D. TO SHAKE THINGS UP
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