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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful

Happy and upbeat

Cynical and sharp
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?
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?
A prominent inclusion of dashes

Complex metaphors

Elaborate wordplay

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

Three

Four

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

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures

Religious guilt
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"so sweet"

"and which"

"I have eaten"

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

War epic

Imagist poetry

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

The speaker's farm

The speaker's kitchen

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

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is a sonnet.

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

Peaches

Apples

Pears
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

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 guilt over eating plums

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
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 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?
Quintains

Quatrains

Octaves

Monostiches
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?
Regret

Envy

Frustration

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

Taste

Time

Communication
19 When was the poem published?
1988

1938

1983

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

Tony Hoagland

All of the following

Billy Collins
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 highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To describe their unremarkable flavor
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?
The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

A mother–daughter relationship

Moths emerging from cocoons
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Baroque

Direct

Opaque

Mysterious

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