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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Quiz 1

1. Who is the speaker in the epigraph?
- Guido da Montefeltro
- Dante
- Prufrock
- Michelangelo
2. Who is the listener in the epigraph?
- Guido da Montefeltro
- Dante
- Prufrock
- Michelangelo
3. Whose line does Eliot parody with "In the room the women come and go"?
- Stephen Mallarme
- Hesiod
- Jules Laforgue
- Charles Baudelaire
4. Whose work does "works and days of hands" reference?
- Stephen Mallarme
- Hesiod
- Jules Laforgue
- Charles Baudelaire
5. What poem does "And indeed there will be time" allude to?
- "The Road Less Traveled"
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
- "To His Coy Mistress"
- "The Snowman"
6. How might one characterize the rhyme scheme of "Prufrock"?
- ababcdcdeeff
- aabbccddefef
- Free verse
- Free verse with occasional rhymes
7. What 19th-century French poets had a great influence on Eliot?
- The Sensualists
- The Realists
- The Metaphysicals
- The Symbolists
8. What was the original title of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
- "Prufrock Among the Women"
- "What Do Prufrocks Want?"
- "Prufrock And the Women"
- "The Love Song of Johannes A. Prufrock"
9. What personal connection did the name "J. Alfred Prufrock" have for Eliot?
- It was his original name
- It was his grandfather's name
- It was his uncle's name
- He used to sign his name "T. Stearns Eliot"
10. What subliminal meaning did Eliot want the name "Prufrock" to contain?
- "Prior futility"
- "Prudential framing"
- A "proof" that is "frail"
- A "prude" in a "frock"