Question

Name the famous clairvoyante in The Waste Land.

• A. Madame Sosostris
• B. Sweeney
• C. Mrs. Porter
• D. Prufrock

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Madame Sosostris

• She appears in the section “The Burial of the Dead.”

• She is described as a famous fortune-teller with a bad cold.

• The character is partly a satire on fake spiritualism.