The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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1. In which magazine was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” first published?

The Egoist

Poetry

The Criterion

The Dial

2. The poem later appeared in which of Eliot’s collections?

Prufrock and Other Observations

Ash Wednesday and Other Poems

The Waste Land and Other Poems

Four Quartets

3. Originally, Eliot intended to title the poem—

“Prufrock among the Women”

“The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock”

“The Love Song of Thomas Prufrock”

“A Song of Modern Man”

4. The character name “Prufrock” was inspired by—

A St. Louis business advertisement for the William Prufrock Furniture Company.

A fictional character from Dickens

Eliot’s professor

A line from Dante

5. The phrase “love song” in the title alludes to which poet’s work?

Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

W. B. Yeats

Rudyard Kipling

6. The epigraph of the poem is taken from—

Petrarch’s Sonnets

Dante’s Inferno, Canto XXVII

Dante’s Paradiso

Virgil’s Aeneid

7. Who speaks the epigraph?

Francesca da Rimini

Count Ugolino

Guido da Montefeltro

Virgil

8. The setting of the poem is—

An urban evening cityscape

A rural village

A seaside town

A suburban garden

9. The poem is often described as—

A satire on religion

A parody of romantic ballads

A monologue of modern despair

A narrative of war heroism

10. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was written—

During WWII

Before WWI

During the Great Depression

After WWI

11. Ezra Pound described “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as:

“A confused experiment in verse libre.”

“A quaint academic exercise.”

“An imitation of Laforgue.”

“The best poem I have yet had or seen from an American.”

12. “Vers libre” refers to:

Free verse

Heroic couplets

Blank verse

Rhymed iambic tetrameter

13. The notebook where Eliot drafted “Prufrock among the Women” was titled:

The Hollow Men Manuscript

Collected Juvenilia

Early Observations

Inventions of the March Hare

14. The collection Prufrock and Other Observations was published in:

1915

1922

1917

1914

15. The poem’s opening simile compares the evening sky to:

A patient etherised upon a table

A sleeping child

A dying ember

A fading candle

16. The anesthetic imagery of “etherised” was inspired partly by Eliot’s reading of:

William James’s Principles of Psychology

Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams

Bergson’s Creative Evolution

Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus

17. The epigraph’s speaker, Guido da Montefeltro, confesses because:

He seeks redemption

He believes Dante cannot return to the living world

He mistakes Dante for Beatrice

He is commanded by Virgil

18. Ezra Pound’s primary role in Eliot’s early career was:

His academic mentor only

His editor and patron

His critic and rival

His publisher at Faber & Faber

19. Where was T.S. Eliot when he wrote most of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' in the summer of 1911?

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

Munich, Germany

Paris, France

20. “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons” suggests—

A symbol of love and warmth

A sense of fulfillment

A routine, meaningless existence

A life of luxury

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