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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat

Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
The icebox

The kitchen sink

Apples

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

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range
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?
Three

Six

Eighteen

Four
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

Religious guilt

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"

"so sweet"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral poetry

Imagist poetry

War epic

Erasure poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?
The speaker's kitchen

An orchard

A doctor's office

The speaker's farm
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?
Pears

Apples

Plums

Peaches
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It refers to an ice chest.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Monostiches

Quintains

Octaves

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

Happiness

Regret

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

Communication

Taste

Guilt
19 When was the poem published?
1933

1938

1983

1988
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Billy Collins

Tony Hoagland

Jennifer O'Grady

All of the following
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?
Cold

Sweet

Saccharine

Delicious
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?
To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To show the lingering memory it left behind
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Lift Off"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Jet"

"Booster Rockets"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths emerging from cocoons

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

Opaque

Baroque

Mysterious

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