Thomas Stearns Eliot famously known as T.S Eliot is one of the most famous poet for judging your knowledge. We have penned down important questions on the life and works of T.S Eliot that will help you to prepare literature questions.
Q1: When was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
Answer: He was born on 26th September 1888.
Q2: Where was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
Answer: T.S Eliot was born in St. Louis.
Q3: When was Eliot moved to the United Kingdom?
Answer: T.S Eliot was moved to United Kingdom in 1914 at the age of 25.
Q4: What great event prevented T.S Eliot from receiving his degree from Harvard?
Answer: T.S Eliot began graduate study in philosophy at Harvard but the event of World War I prevented him from taking his examinations and receiving the degree.
Q5: When Eliot met Ezra Pound?
Answer: Eliot met Ezra Pound in 1914 and Ezra became his main mentor and editor.
Q6: Which work of Eliot is heavily edited by Ezra Pound?
Answer: Eliot Waste Land is heavily edited by Ezra pound and probably his wife Vivien.
Q7: When did T.S Eliot got noble prize for literature?
Answer: T.S Eliot got noble prize in 1948.
Q8: Which journal first published some of Eliot’s poems?
Answer: Harvard Advocate published Eliot’s poems.
Q9: Eliot dedicated the poem The Wasteland to whom?
Answer: T.S Eliot dedicated the poem to Ezra Pound.
Q10: When was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock written and published?
Answer: Eliot wrote Prufrock in February 1910 and it was first published in June 1915.
Q11: Which works of William Shakespeare can be seen as references in J. Alfred Prufrock?
Answer: The references from William Shakespeare plays such as Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night and Hamlet can be seen in J. Alfred Prufrock.
Q12: What was T.S Eliot nickname that Ezra Pound gave him which he used as part of the title for a book of poetry for children?
Answer: Old Possum Mongoose
Q13: What is the name of the poem in which Eliot mentions a Queen of England and her lover?
Answer: The Fire Sermon
Q14: What is the name of the Queen and her lover that Eliot mention in The Fire Sermon?
Answer: The name of the queen was Elizabeth I and her lover name was Leicester.
Q15: Where did Thomas Stearns Eliot study Sanskrit?
Answer: Eliot studied Sanskrit at Harvard.
Q16: What is the name of the character in Thomas Stearns Eliot poetry that is both female and male?
Answer: Tiresias
Q17: In which poem one of the character is tarot card reader?
Answer: The Burial of the Dead
Q18: What card is picked first in “The Burial of the Dead”?
Answer: The Drowned Sailor
Q19: Where did Eliot work as a clerk?
Answer: Lloyds Band Ltd
Q20: Shortly after converted to the Anglican religion, What Eliot wrote?
Answer: He wrote Ash Wednesday
Q21: Apart from poetry, what makes T.S Eliot famous?
Answer: He is also famous for his seven plays particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
Q22: Whose assassination the play Murder in the Cathedral depicts?
Answer: “It portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170”. (wiki)
Q23: How many parts of Murder in the Cathedral exists?
Answer: There are two parts of the play.
Q24: When and where T.S Eliot died?
Answer: He died on 4th January 1965 at the age of 76 in London, England.