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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Straightforward and regretful

Dark and moody

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
The kitchen sink

The icebox

Oranges

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
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

Shakespeare's love sonnets
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay

The use of enjambment

Complex metaphors
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Six

Eighteen

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

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

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?
War epic

Pastoral poetry

Imagist poetry

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

The speaker's farm

An orchard

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

The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is a sonnet.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?
Peaches

Pears

Plums

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

It refers to an ice chest.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

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 third stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the second stanza

In the first stanza
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?
Octaves

Quintains

Quatrains

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

Frustration

Envy

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

Time

Taste

Communication
19 When was the poem published?
1983

1938

1933

1988
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Tony Hoagland

Billy Collins

All of the following

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

Delicious

Cold

Saccharine
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 describe their unremarkable flavor

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Lift Off"

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

Moths emerging from cocoons

A mother–daughter relationship

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

Baroque

Mysterious

Direct

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