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1 What is the tone of the poem?

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat

Straightforward and regretful

Dark and moody
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Apples

Oranges

The kitchen sink

The icebox
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

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

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay

Complex metaphors

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

Eighteen

Six

Three

Four
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

The speaker's love for his wife

Religious guilt

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"and which"

"I have eaten"

"so sweet"

"you were probably"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Imagist poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

The speaker's farm

An orchard

The speaker's kitchen

A doctor's office
10 What is the poem's form and meter?

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a villanelle.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?

Peaches

Plums

Pears

Apples
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?

It refers to an ice chest.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is an older term for refrigerator.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's marital struggles
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

Before the poem has begun

In the third stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Quatrains

Quintains

Monostiches

Octaves
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Regret

Happiness

Frustration

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

Communication

Time

Guilt

Taste
19 When was the poem published?

1938

1988

1983

1933
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?

Tony Hoagland

All of the following

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?

Saccharine

Sweet

Cold

Delicious
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?

"Jet"

"Lift Off"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Booster Rockets"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

Moths emerging from cocoons

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?

Mysterious

Baroque

Direct

Opaque

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