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This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?
Happy and upbeat

Cynical and sharp

Straightforward and regretful

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

Oranges

Apples

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

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

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

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Complex metaphors

The use of enjambment
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eighteen

Three

Four

Six
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?
"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"I have eaten"

"and which"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Erasure poetry

Imagist poetry

Pastoral poetry

War epic
9 What is the poem's setting?
The speaker's farm

A doctor's office

An orchard

The speaker's kitchen
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

Apples

Pears
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 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 second stanza

In the third stanza

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

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

Monostiches

Quatrains

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?
Communication

Taste

Guilt

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1988

1938

1933

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

All of the following

Jennifer O'Grady

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

Sweet

Cold

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

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To show the lingering memory it left behind

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

"Jet"

"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

The speaker's fear of the dark

A mother–daughter relationship
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Direct

Baroque

Opaque

Mysterious

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