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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Straightforward and regretful

Dark and moody

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Oranges

The icebox

The kitchen sink

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Bashō's haikus about autumn
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
The use of enjambment

Complex metaphors

Elaborate wordplay

A prominent inclusion of dashes
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Six

Three

Eighteen
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
Religious guilt

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral poetry

Imagist poetry

War epic

Erasure poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?
A doctor's office

The speaker's kitchen

An orchard

The speaker's farm
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is written in free verse.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?
Peaches

Pears

Plums

Apples
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It refers to an ice chest.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quatrains

Quintains

Monostiches

Octaves
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?
Frustration

Regret

Happiness

Envy
18 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Time

Guilt

Communication

Taste
19 When was the poem published?
1983

1938

1988

1933
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Jennifer O'Grady

All of the following

Billy Collins

Tony Hoagland
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?
Delicious

Cold

Sweet

Saccharine
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?
To reveal that he feels no guilt

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To describe their unremarkable flavor
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Rocket Fuel"

"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Lift Off"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
Moths emerging from cocoons

The speaker's fear of the dark

A mother–daughter relationship

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Baroque

Opaque

Mysterious

Direct

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