T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

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1. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"? He do the Police in Different Voices The Land of the Dead Unreal City Voices in the Desert

2. Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions of the poem? Answer: (First and last name or just last)

3. Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from? Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Milton's "Paradise Lost" Pound's "Cantos" Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal"

4. The line, "The ivory men make company between us", which was deleted from the final version of the poem from the second section "A Game of Chess", was taken out at whose suggestion? John Quinn's Ezra Pound's Vivien Eliot's Valerie Eliot's

5. There are many quotations in different languages throughout the poem. Which of these languages is NOT present in the poem? Greek Spanish Italian German

6. Which of these cities is NOT mentioned in the poem? Munich Vienna Alexandria Carthage

7. Before it was deleted, the line "Get me a woman, I said; you're too drunk, she said" was part of which section of the poem? A Game of Chess Burial of the Dead The Fire Sermon What the Thunder Said

8. Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book? From Ritual to Romance The Tain The Mabinogeon The Golden Bough

9. True or false: Eliot stated that "The Waste Land" was "an important bit of social criticism." True False

10. Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"? Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy" Spenser's "Prothalamion" Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield" Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"