Objective Questions from T.S Eliot and Portrait of a Lady

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 Objective questions from T. S. Eliot and Portrait of A Lady


● T. S. Eliot was an ___ poet ?

American- British

● In which year T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ?

1948

● What is the theme of the poem Portrait of a Lady ?

Man-woman relationship and its failure.


● The epigraph with which the poem Portrait of a Lady starts, is taken from ?

The Jew of Malta

● Portrait of a Lady starts with the description of which month ?

December

● In the poem Portrait of a Lady, the atmosphere is compared with the Tomb of ?

Juliet's Tomb

● The voice of the lady is compared with the sound of ?

A dull tom-tom

● To forget the first meeting with the lady, what did the Man do ?

He admires the monuments and discuss the late events.

● In which season the lady and the man met for the second time ?

Spring season

● Which flower is mentioned in the poem Portrait of a Lady ?

Lilac

● Who is cruel and has no remorse ?

Youth

● In past, in which country had the lady spent her spring season ?

Paris

● In in which month did the lady and young man meet for the last time ?

October

● When was the poem Portrait of a Lady published ?

1915

● In 1917 the poem appeared in the collection of ?

Prufrock and Other Observations

● The poem Portrait of a Lady is generally considered to have originated, from the work of ?

Henry James

● How many times does the lady and young man meet ?

3 times

● In the poem Portrait of a Lady, the speaker has no what ?

Achilles's heel

● What does the poem's speaker ask if he has the right to do at the very end of "Portrait of a Lady" ?

Smile

● When was Portrait of a Lady written ?

1911

● Who is chopin in the portrait of lady ?

A Polish composer and Pianist

● What is rare and strange to find ?
or 
● Finding whom is rare and strange according to the lady ?

Friends

● When young man does not understand the situations, What does he do ?

He smiles

● What can the young man received from lady in Portrait of a Lady ?

Friendship and SymlaSym

● Smell of which flower makes the young man to remember lady in Portrait of a Lady ?

Hyacinths

● When was T. S. Eliot born ?

1888

● What abbreviation does "T. S" stands for ?

Thomas stwarst

● To which age does T. S. Eliot belong ?

Modern age

● T. S. Eliot was awarded U.S presidential Medal of Freedom in ?

1964

● What was the name of the Eliot's first volume of poems that appeared in 1917 ?

Prufrock and Other Observations

● T. S. Eliot migrated England from ?

USA

● T. S. Eliot was a ?

Classicist

● When was "The Waste Land" published ?

1922

● When was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" published ?

1915

● When did Thomas stearns Eliot die ?

1929

● Where did Eliot study Sanskrit ?

Harvard

● Which poem of T. S. Eliot made him world famous ?

The Waste Land

● Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by ?

T. S. Eliot

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