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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Mr. Apollinax | Analysis for Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - Hysteria.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker in "Portrait of a Lady" states that his auditor would have the "scene arrange itself" among the smoke and fog of an afternoon in what month?
(a) March.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) December.

2. What event is spoken of in the last line of the first part of the "Preludes"?
(a) The lighting of the lamps.
(b) The stamping of a horse.
(c) The tramping of a man's feet.
(d) The rustling of a newspaper.

3. Who spreads a pink and white checkered cloth over a rusty table in "Hysteria"?
(a) An effete boy.
(b) An elderly waiter.
(c) The beloved of the speaker.
(d) The speaker.

4. What country has Mr. Apollinax visited according to the poem of the same name?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Canada.
(d) Italy.

5. What in "Morning at the Window" "hovers in the air" and "vanishes along the level of the roofs"?
(a) An aimless smile.
(b) A despondent wail.
(c) A dry exhale.
(d) A twisted face.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", it is said that the women "come and go, talking of" whom?

2. What was the last name of "Aunt Helen"?

3. What Shakespearean character does Prufrock say he is not?

4. Under what did the poem's speaker look for Mr. Apollinax's head to roll?

5. What does the speaker of the poem in the "Boston Evening Transcript" do after mounting the steps?

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