Ithink sometimes that if i were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.
but i find i get pretty tired when i try.
it is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. when i get really well, john says we will ask cousin henry and julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.
i wish i could get well faster.
but i must not think about that. this paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!

which part of this excerpt best demonstrates the narrator’s social alienation?
a.“i think sometimes that if i were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.”
b.“it is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.”
c.“when i get really well, john says we will ask cousin henry and julia down for a long visit.”
d.“this paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had! ”

spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder
if i could put a notion in his head:
“why do they make good neighbours? isn’t it
where there are cows? but here there are no cows.
before i built a wall i’d ask to know
what i was walling in or walling out,
and to whom i was like to give offence.
something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
that wants it down.” i could say “elves” to him,
but it’s not elves exactly, and i’d rather
he said it for himself.

what is the speaker’s mood in this excerpt?
a. unhappy
b. playful
c. childish
d. determined

i, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.

what is the meaning of the word “contempt” in this context?
a. misunderstanding
b. indifference
c. appreciation
d. scorn

which lines from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" provide an example of stream of consciousness?
a. time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
and for a hundred visions and revisions,
b. i have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
and i have seen the eternal footman hold my coat, and snicker,
and in short, i was afraid.
c. slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
and seeing that it was a soft october night,
curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
d. streets that follow like a tedious argument
of insidious intent
to lead you to an overwhelming question . .
oh, do not ask, “what is it? ”