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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Poem Multiple Choice

1. The speaker says that rather than Prince Hamlet he should be

a. a servant

b. an attendant lord

c. a court jester

d. a knight

2. What has the speaker seen at dusk?

a. well-dressed women en route to the opera

b. worn-out women walking the streets

c. lonely men in shirt-sleeves leaning out of windows

d. smoke rising from chimneys

3. The speaker says that he has measured his life with what?

a. straight pins

b. teaspoons

c. coffee spoons

d. butt-ends

4. The speaker says that he has seen whom holding his coat and snickering?

a. the eternal Footman

b. Prince Hamlet

c. Michelangelo

d. the women in the room

5. What do the women in the room talk about?

a. Prince Hamlet

b. Lazarus come from the dead

c. Michelangelo

d. the eternal Footman

6. What does the speaker say he has known?

a. eyes and feet

b. eyes and ears

c. eyes and arms

d. arms and legs

7. What image is used to describe the yellow fog?

a. licked its foot

b. slipped by the chimney

c. rubbing its back

d. falling in soot

8. What will happen, according to the speaker, when human voices awaken him?

a. He will become less timid.

b. He will drown.

c. He will become more aware.

d. He will feel quite happy.

9. The speaker says there will be time for all of the following but what?

a. to murder

b. to create

c. to sleep

d. to prepare a face

10. What about his physical appearance most concerns the speaker?

a. his unfashionable necktie

b. his bald spot

c. his voice

d. his pale eyes

11. Who, according to the speaker, will not sing to him?

a. birds outside the window

b. performers on the street

c. mermaids in the sea

d. the women in the room

12. The speaker indicates that he has been examined as if her were

a. an insect under a microscope

b. an insect under a magnifying glass

c. an insect pinned on a block of Styrofoam

d. an insect pinned on the wall

13. What activity does the speaker seem to be frequently engaged in?

a. lying in bed

b. eating alone in restaurants

c. walking along the beach

d. attending social teas

14. In what month is this poem set?

a. August

b. September

c. October

d. November

15. What, according to the speaker, makes him digress?

a. a dress

b. perfume

c. necklaces

d. bracelets

16. What does the speaker say will happen when he grows old?

a. He will wear a flannel hat.

b. He will wear the bottoms of his trousers rolled.

c. He will wear a shawl about his shoulders.

d. He will wear baggy pants.

17. What does the speaker not see as he walks through the city at the beginning of the poem?

a. chimneys

b. restaurants

c. hotels

d. stairways

18. The speaker says that he is no

a. Lazarus come from the dead

b. Michelangelo

c. Svengali

d. prophet

Poem Short Answer

19. Describe the world that the speaker lives in. Cite details from the poem in your description.

20. Write a character sketch of the women with whom the speaker socializes. Cite details from the poem to support your ideas.

21. Discuss the speaker’s perception of time. Cite details from the poem in your discussion.

22. Analyze the personality of the speaker in the poem. Cite details from the poem to support your analysis.

23. Write a physical description of the speaker.

24. How would you describe the relationship between the speaker and the women with whom he socializes? Cite details from the poem to support your description.

Poetic Techniques Short Answer Questions

25. What details does the speaker inadvertently reveal about himself through dramatic monologue?

26. Explain the following allusions in the poem: the eternal Footman, Prince Hamlet, Michelangelo, Lazarus, and the head brought in on a platter.

27. Explain how the poet uses stream of consciousness in the poem.

28. Find an example of an extended metaphor in the poem. Explain the comparison being made.

29. Explain the epigraph at the beginning of the poem and its connection to the poem.

30. What effect does the repetition of certain lines and phrases create in the poem?

31. Identify several concrete images in the poem.

32. Find an example of enjambment in the poem.

33. Find an example of alliteration in the poem.

34. Whom is the speaker addressing?

Multiple Choice Answer Key

1. B

2. C

3. C

4. A

5. C

6. C

7. C

8. B

9. C

10. B

11. C

12. D

13. D

14. C

15. B

16. B

17. D

18. D

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