Money Madness
D. H. Lawrence
1. D. H. Lawrence was a ____.
a. Prominent and prolific 20th century writer
2. What perspective is highlighted in the poem Money Madness?
a. Materialistic perspective of fellow human beings
3. What does the poet D. H. Lawrence suggest regarding the capability of money?
a. Manipulative capability on human beings into committing acts of
injustice
4. What does the word quail mean?
a. Tremble, lose heart
5. What does the word Grovel mean?
a. To behave in a servile (submissive) way
6. What does the word Pang mean?
a. Intense pain or distress
7. What does the word Tremor mean?
a. fear
8. What does the word Delirium mean?
a. An excited/ dreamy state (most often when seriously ill?)
9. Who wrote the poem, Money Madness?
a. D. H. Lawrence
10. In which year was the poem Money Madness published?
a. 1929
11. Name the collection in which the poem Money Madness originally published?
a. Pansies
12. What according to the poet is our attitude towards money?
a. Collective madness
13. According to the poet D. H. Lawrence, each individual carries his own grain of ___ towards money.
a. Insanity
14. In which year was D. H. Lawrence born?
a. 1885
15. Money makes us ___.
a. Quail
16. What all should be free according to the poet, D. H. Lawrence?
a. Bread, shelter and fire.
17. According to the poem, Money Madness, if we have no money, we are expected to eat ___.
a. Dirt
18. What would happen if we continue to be insane behind money?
a. We shall start killing one another for money
19. To whom is the poem Money Madness, implied or addressed to?
a. To the entire mankind.
20. In the context of the poem Money Madness, A pound note causes a ____ and a ten pound note causes a ____.
a. pang, real tremor
21. What does the line, “eating dirt and going cold” mean?
a. Get no nutritious food and have no shelter/ face insult and die
22. What should we regain to survive or to avoid killing one another?
a. Sanity about money
23. What is the poet frightened of?
a. eating dirt and going cold
24. How does mankind judge a person's value according to D.H. Lawrence?
a. by their bank balance
25. D. H. Lawrence is trying to ______.
a. sensitize the capitalistic society/ talk in favour of socialistic approach
26. What does the poet mean by 'dirt' in the poem Money Madness?
a. Food that lacks vitamins/ Filthy food
27. How do money-mad men get treatment without money?
a. They treat with contempt
28. What do money-mad men get to think about people without money?
a. Let them eat dirt
29. What does the poet mean by 'bread' ?
a. Food
30. In the last line, “It’s one thing or the other”, what does one thing and other mean according to the poet D. H. Lawrence?
a. Money or sanity (or vice versa)
31. What does the poet mean by ‘shelter' ?
a. House
32. What does Lawrence mean when he says that “They will make me eat dirt”?
a. It means that they (Society) will humiliate him
33. How do people feel when they give one pound?
a. A pang
34. How do people feel when they give ten pounds?
a. A tremor
35. “Money has got us down” could mean
a. it has made us its slaves.
36. How are people without money, usually treated?
a. They are made to eat dirt and go cold.
37. What does the poet mean by ‘fire’ ?
a. Food making or preparing arrangement
38. What does Lawrence mean when he says that money has got us down?
a. That it has made us cruel
39. Lawrence agreed that we must
have a little money. Why do we need it?
a. In order to buy food
40. Mankind’s collective ______ is more terrifying than money itself.
a. Madness
41. According to Lawrence, Money is our vast _____ madness.
a. Collective
42. According to Lawrence, how can wealth or money impact modern life?
a. It may dehumanise us further
43. How does the absence of money affect humans, according to Lawrence?
a. Terrifies them
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