This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

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

Apples

The icebox

The kitchen sink
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Shakespeare's love sonnets

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?

Complex metaphors

A prominent inclusion of dashes

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Three

Eighteen

Four

Six
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

Farm labor

Religious guilt

Everyday pleasures

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

"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"

"so sweet"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Imagist poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

An orchard

The speaker's kitchen

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 a sonnet.

The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is written in free verse.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?

Apples

Plums

Pears

Peaches
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?

It refers to an ice chest.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

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 inability to cook

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the third stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Octaves

Quatrains

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?

Time

Guilt

Communication

Taste
19 When was the poem published?

1933

1983

1938

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

All of the following

Billy Collins

Jennifer O'Grady

Tony Hoagland
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?

Cold

Delicious

Sweet

Saccharine
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To show the lingering memory it left behind

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

"Booster Rockets"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Lift Off"

"Jet"
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?

Direct

Mysterious

Baroque

Opaque

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