QUIZ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

What character does Prufrock envision that he is?

A fool

In the opening lines of the poem, to what does the speaker compare the evening, which is "spread out against the sky" (NAAL9D p.355)?

A patient etherized upon a table

Which of the following is not a question that Prufrock asks of his listener during the poem?

Are my arms and legs too thin?

From what other poem does Eliot take the epigraph to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

Dante's Inferno

Which of the following is a decision that Prufrock makes within the poem?

I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk along the beach

What does Prufrock hope to hear while walking along the beach?

Mermaids singing to themselves

Of whom are the women who come and go talking?

Michelangelo

What item has Prufrock used to measure his life?

coffee spoons

What color is the fog that Prufrock sees rubbing its back and muzzle upon the windowpanes?

yellow