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

Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp
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

Bashō's haikus about autumn

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
Complex metaphors

Elaborate wordplay

The use of enjambment

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

Eighteen

Six

Three
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
Farm labor

Religious guilt

The speaker's love for his wife

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"

"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?
A doctor's office

The speaker's kitchen

An orchard

The speaker's farm
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a villanelle.

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

Apples

Peaches

Plums
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 marital struggles

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's inability to cook
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
In the second stanza

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quintains

Octaves

Monostiches

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

Frustration

Happiness

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

Guilt

Time

Taste
19 When was the poem published?
1983

1988

1933

1938
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?
Sweet

Cold

Delicious

Saccharine
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"

"Booster Rockets"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Lift Off"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
The speaker's fear of the dark

A mother–daughter relationship

Moths emerging from cocoons

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

Direct

Baroque

Mysterious

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