The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Quizzes

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Quiz 1

By Teddy Wayne · Last reviewed August 13, 2002

1 Who is the speaker in the epigraph?

Prufrock

Guido da Montefeltro

Michelangelo

Dante
2 Who is the listener in the epigraph?

Michelangelo

Guido da Montefeltro

Dante

Prufrock
3 Whose line does Eliot parody with "In the room the women come and go"?

Jules Laforgue

Hesiod

Charles Baudelaire

Stephen Mallarme
4 Whose work does "works and days of hands" reference?

Stephen Mallarme

Jules Laforgue

Hesiod

Charles Baudelaire
5 What poem does "And indeed there will be time" allude to?

"The Road Less Traveled"

"The Snowman"

Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

"To His Coy Mistress"
6 How might one characterize the rhyme scheme of "Prufrock"?

ababcdcdeeff

Free verse with occasional rhymes

Free verse

aabbccddefef
7 What 19th-century French poets had a great influence on Eliot?

The Symbolists

The Realists

The Sensualists

The Metaphysicals
8 What was the original title of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

"Prufrock Among the Women"

"Prufrock And the Women"

"The Love Song of Johannes A. Prufrock"

"What Do Prufrocks Want?"
9 What personal connection did the name "J. Alfred Prufrock" have for Eliot?

He used to sign his name "T. Stearns Eliot"

It was his grandfather's name

It was his original name

It was his uncle's name
10 What subliminal meaning did Eliot want the name "Prufrock" to contain?

A "proof" that is "frail"

"Prior futility"

"Prudential framing"

A "prude" in a "frock"
11 Who is the eternal Footman?

A saint

An angel

Death

God
12 What Shakespearean character does Prufrock compare himself to?

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

Lear
13 What is the poetic term for repeating a certain line or lines at points?

Alliteration

Parataxis

Refrain

Metaphor
14 What is the technique of writing a poem in another character's voice?

Free verse

Dramatic monologue

Haiku

Sestina
15 Who is the master of this form?

Wallace Stevens

Robert Browning

William Shakespeare

Robert Frost
16 What literary technique of grafting together various pieces to make something coherent is the foundation of Modernism?

Fragmentation

Particularization

Parody

Grand narrative
17 In his essay "Hamlet and His Problems," what does Eliot call the form through which the artist creates emotional significance?

Simile

Objective correlative

Metaphor

Symbolism
18 In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Eliot says the "extinction of ____" is the goal of the artist.

Identity

Voice

Personality

Writing
19 What is the most salient aspect of Prufrock's physical appearance, mentioned at least three times?

His baldness

His glasses

His thinness

His shoes
20 What does Prufrock wonder if he should dare eat?

A grapefruit

A peach

An apple

A banana
21 What possible significance does this food have?

It is a symbol of death

It is a symbol for female genitalia

It is a symbol for male genitalia

It is a symbol of happiness
22 What do the last six lines of the poem resemble?

The beginning sestet of a Shakespearean sonnet

The beginnings sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet

The concluding sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet

The concluding sestet of a Shakespearean sonnet
23 Who asked King Herod for the head of John the Baptist brought in on a platter?

Salome

Lazarus

Hesiod

Mary Magdalene
24 What does the "spread out" in the second line possibly reference?

Henri Bergson's concept of "duration"

Sigmund Freud's concept of the "Oedipus complex"

Plato's concept of "the Republic"

Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the "super-man"
25 Where was Eliot when he started writing "Prufrock"?

In St. Louis

In a sanitarium

In London

At Harvard

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