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  Which novel did T.S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 143 times
Correct: 68 times (29.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 75 times (32.9%)
Skipped: 85 times (37.3%)
  What did T.S. Eliot attempt to combine in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party? see if you know the answer
Answered: 46 times
Correct: 15 times (23.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 31 times (48.4%)
Skipped: 18 times (28.1%)
  What do you call the literary device where a reference to something else (typically a place, a person, or another work of literature) is used to convey a particular meaning, but it is left to the reader to make the actual connection?

(E.g., "I had not thought death had undone so many" -- from The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot -- contains such a reference to "An interminable train of souls pressed on, so many that I wondered how death could have undone so many" from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Part 1: Inferno.) 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 393 times
Correct: 322 times (75.6%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 71 times (16.7%)
Skipped: 33 times (7.7%)
  To whom is T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" dedicated?
see if you know the answer
Answered: 387 times
Correct: 250 times (38.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 137 times (21.2%)
Skipped: 258 times (40.0%)
  The indecisive voice of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks whether he dares to eat a/an ______________. see if you know the answer
Answered: 4570 times
Correct: 2880 times (43.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1690 times (25.4%)
Skipped: 2086 times (31.3%)
  "When I was young,
I was so gay and mean,
And I drank and chased the girls,
Just like young St Augustine.
Saint Augustine,
He got to be a saint.
So if I get to be one, also,
Please, Mama, don't you faint."
see if you know the answer
Answered: 148 times
Correct: 51 times (22.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 97 times (43.5%)
Skipped: 75 times (33.6%)
  If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose Practical Cat might have submitted an entry entitled "The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat?" see if you know the answer
Answered: 256 times
Correct: 199 times (65.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 57 times (18.8%)
Skipped: 47 times (15.5%)
  "One of the low, on whom assurance sits, as a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire" see if you know the answer
Answered: 147 times
Correct: 49 times (18.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 98 times (37.8%)
Skipped: 112 times (43.2%)
  The epigraph to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is a quotation from which ancient philosopher? see if you know the answer
Answered: 103 times
Correct: 63 times (31.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 40 times (20.1%)
Skipped: 96 times (48.2%)
  The poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was engaged for a while in 1906 to which famous American poet? see if you know the answer
Answered: 135 times
Correct: 79 times (36.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 56 times (26.0%)
Skipped: 80 times (37.2%)
  In Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, who is the Mystery Cat? see if you know the answer
Answered: 158 times
Correct: 50 times (20.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 108 times (45.2%)
Skipped: 81 times (33.9%)
  About which poet did W.H. Auden write in a memorial poem: "O all the instruments agree / The day of his death was a dark cold day"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 116 times
Correct: 65 times (34.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 51 times (26.8%)
Skipped: 74 times (38.9%)
  Which T. S. Eliot poem includes the following lines?: "We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion / Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, / The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters / Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning." see if you know the answer
Answered: 277 times
Correct: 109 times (17.6%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 168 times (27.1%)
Skipped: 344 times (55.4%)
  What historical figure is at the center of T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1704 times
Correct: 1220 times (45.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 484 times (17.8%)
Skipped: 1009 times (37.2%)
  Who wrote a book of children's poems called `Old Possum`s Book Of Practical Cats`? see if you know the answer
Answered: 8310 times
Correct: 5982 times (53.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 2328 times (20.7%)
Skipped: 2923 times (26.0%)
  Which of these is not an anagram of the name of a famous poet? see if you know the answer
Answered: 165 times
Correct: 53 times (23.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 112 times (50.0%)
Skipped: 59 times (26.3%)
  "The Cocktail Party," a play published in 1950, was written by which of the following poets? see if you know the answer
Answered: 70 times
Correct: 40 times (44.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 30 times (33.0%)
Skipped: 21 times (23.1%)
  Which one of T.S. Eliot's cats "was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme / A long while before Queen Victoria's accession"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 64 times
Correct: 39 times (33.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 25 times (21.4%)
Skipped: 53 times (45.3%)
  To which fellow poet did T.S. Eliot dedicate his poem The Waste Land? see if you know the answer
Answered: 103 times
Correct: 80 times (57.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 23 times (16.5%)
Skipped: 36 times (25.9%)
  Which renowned poet in 1936 purportedly broke his hand after hitting Ernest Hemingway on the jaw who in return knocked him down? (They had another violent argument in 1940.) see if you know the answer
Answered: 116 times
Correct: 30 times (19.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 86 times (55.5%)
Skipped: 39 times (25.2%)
  T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land has the following as its epigraph (I transliterate the Greek): 'Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: "Sibylla ti theleis?" respondebat illa: "apothanein thelô."'
(Roughly translated: 'For I indeed saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae flowing in a bottle, and when those boys asked: 'Sibyl, what do you want?', she answered: 'I wish to die'".

From which Roman writer's work does this quote derive? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 120 times
Correct: 39 times (21.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 81 times (43.8%)
Skipped: 65 times (35.1%)
  Which author said of his work that it "wouldn't be what it is if I'd been born in England, and it wouldn't be what it is if I'd stayed in America. It's a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 73 times
Correct: 25 times (22.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (42.5%)
Skipped: 40 times (35.4%)
  According to T S Eliot in The Wasteland (from The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems,) what month is the cruelest? see if you know the answer
Answered: 667 times
Correct: 447 times (54.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 220 times (26.8%)
Skipped: 155 times (18.9%)
  Which author has NOT been lambasted by critics for alleged anti-Semitism in their works? see if you know the answer
Answered: 807 times
Correct: 373 times (32.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 434 times (38.1%)
Skipped: 333 times (29.2%)
  Which long poem mourned the death of the poet's friend Arthur Henry Hallam? see if you know the answer
Answered: 771 times
Correct: 539 times (43.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 232 times (18.5%)
Skipped: 481 times (38.4%)
  After William Wordsworth's death, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was seriously considered as poet laureate. Who was chosen? see if you know the answer
Answered: 263 times
Correct: 165 times (28.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 98 times (16.9%)
Skipped: 316 times (54.6%)
  Who wrote this?

"Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterises modern thought, but Hamlet invented it. The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 152 times
Correct: 50 times (21.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 102 times (44.7%)
Skipped: 76 times (33.3%)
  The following lines are written by T. S. Eliot. What poem are they found in?

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 66 times
Correct: 43 times (38.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 23 times (20.4%)
Skipped: 47 times (41.6%)
  Who wrote the sonnet, "On Mrs. Reynold's Cat", the first part of which goes:

"Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd?--How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears--but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me--and upraise
Thy gentle mew--and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 66 times
Correct: 31 times (30.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 35 times (34.0%)
Skipped: 37 times (35.9%)
  "A home without a cat -- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat -- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Who said this? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 82 times
Correct: 33 times (28.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (42.2%)
Skipped: 34 times (29.3%)
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