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

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat

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

Apples

The kitchen sink

Oranges
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Bashō's haikus about autumn

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Shakespeare's love sonnets
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
Elaborate wordplay

Complex metaphors

A prominent inclusion of dashes

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

Eighteen

Three

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

Everyday pleasures

The speaker's love for his wife

Religious guilt
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"you were probably"

"so sweet"

"I have eaten"

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

Erasure poetry

War epic

Imagist 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 a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is written in free verse.

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

Plums

Peaches

Apples
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 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?
In the second stanza

In the third stanza

In the first stanza

Before the poem has begun
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 compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains

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

Regret

Envy

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

Taste

Communication

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1983

1988

1933

1938
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Jennifer O'Grady

Tony Hoagland

Billy Collins

All of the following
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?
Cold

Saccharine

Sweet

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

To reveal that he feels no guilt

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?
"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Lift Off"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

Moths emerging from cocoons

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Mysterious

Opaque

Baroque

Direct

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