Verifica: T. S. Eliot e "The Waste land"

3/10

The first part of “The Waste Land” is entitled “A Game of Chess”.

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4/10

April is a month of rebirth of the nature, but Eliot, in the first line of “The Waste Land”, states that it is “the cruellest month”; why?

Because men are spiritually dead and cannot take part in this regeneration.

Because the poet was suffering of a bad hay fever.

Because the First World War broke out in April.

Because his wife died in April.
5/10

The first stanza of “The Burial of the Dead” presents a prophetical tone, with a lot of quotation from the Bible.

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6/10

The line of “The Waste Land”, “Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!”, is a quotation of a famous Shakespeare’s tragedy. Which one?
7/10

The final line of “The Burial of the Dead”, a part of “The Waste Land” is a famous quotation of which french author?

Charles Baudelaire.

Arthur Rimbaud.

Victor Hugo.

Marcel Proust.
8/10

The final part of “The Waste Land” is called “What the Thunder Said”, and it presents words in Sanskrit.

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9/10

“The Waste Land” is full of high-brow quotation, but presents also a quotation of a famous nursery rhyme. Which one?

"London Bridge is falling down".

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

"Three Blind Mice".

"Ring Ring o’ Roses".
10/10

In the opening of “The Waste Land” there is an epigraph from Ovid.

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