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

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp

Dark and moody
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Oranges

The kitchen sink

The icebox

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Shakespeare's love sonnets

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

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?
Six

Four

Eighteen

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

Religious guilt

Farm labor

The speaker's love for his wife
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"and which"

"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"I have eaten"
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?
Apples

Plums

Pears

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

It refers to an ice chest.

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 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?
Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the third stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

Frustration

Regret

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

Communication

Taste

Guilt
19 When was the poem published?
1938

1983

1988

1933
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
All of the following

Billy Collins

Tony Hoagland

Jennifer O'Grady
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?
Cold

Sweet

Delicious

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

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

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

"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"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

Mysterious

Opaque

Baroque

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