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

Dark and moody

Happy and upbeat

Cynical and sharp
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
The kitchen sink

Apples

Oranges

The icebox
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Shakespeare's love sonnets

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

Elaborate wordplay

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

Four

Six

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

Religious guilt

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor
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?
Pastoral poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic

Imagist poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?
An orchard

The speaker's farm

A doctor's office

The speaker's kitchen
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

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

Pears

Plums

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

It refers to an ice chest.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's marital struggles
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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?
Monostiches

Quintains

Quatrains

Octaves
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?
Happiness

Envy

Frustration

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

Communication

Taste

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1988

1983

1933

1938
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Tony Hoagland

All of the following

Billy Collins

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 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"

"Lift Off"

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
Moths emerging from cocoons

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

A mother–daughter relationship
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Direct

Mysterious

Baroque

Opaque

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