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

Dark and moody

Happy and upbeat

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

The icebox

Apples

The kitchen sink
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Bashō's haikus about autumn

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
A prominent inclusion of dashes

Complex metaphors

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Three

Six

Eighteen
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
Everyday pleasures

Religious guilt

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"you were probably"

"and which"

"so sweet"

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

War epic

Pastoral poetry

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

The speaker's farm

A doctor's office

An orchard
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

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

Pears

Apples

Plums
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It refers to an ice chest.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's guilt over eating plums
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
In the second stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the third 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 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?
Quintains

Octaves

Monostiches

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

Regret

Frustration

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

Guilt

Communication

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1988

1933

1938

1983
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
All of the following

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins

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

Cold

Sweet

Delicious
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?
To show the lingering memory it left behind

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To reveal that he feels no guilt
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Jet"

"Lift Off"

"Booster Rockets"

"Rocket Fuel"
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?
Direct

Baroque

Mysterious

Opaque

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