Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Complete the following line: Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a ___________; (lines 1-3).
Patient etherized upon a table
Michelangelo sketch thrown to the floor
Mermaid wallowing on the shore
Hot Pocket, cold, alone, and uneaten
Q. Complete the following line: And indeed there will be time / To wonder, _____ and, _______ (lines 37-38).
"What is life?" "Must I rhyme?"
"Do I dare?" "Do I dare?"
"To be?" "Not to be?"
"Can I sleep for five more minutes?" "How about just five more minutes?"
Q. When the narrator says, "I do not think that they will sing to me" (line 125), who is the "they" he is referring to?
Mermaids
Shakespeare's characters
The street urchins of London
The angels in heaven
Q. What has the narrator "measured out his life" in?
Coffee spoons
Liters
Ounces
Teardrops
Q. Complete the following line: I grow old…I grow old... / I shall ______ (lines 120-121).
Wear purple
Wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled
Laugh at the fools on the boulevard so bold
Play shuffleboard