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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 icebox

The kitchen sink

Oranges

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Bashō's haikus about autumn

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

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

Elaborate wordplay

Complex metaphors

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

Three

Four

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

Farm labor

Religious guilt

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

"so sweet"

"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?
The speaker's kitchen

The speaker's farm

An orchard

A doctor's office
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?
Pears

Peaches

Plums

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

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice chest.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
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?
Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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

Octaves

Monostiches

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

Happiness

Regret

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

Taste

Communication

Guilt
19 When was the poem published?
1938

1933

1983

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

All of the following

Jennifer O'Grady

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

Cold

Delicious

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

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To reveal that he feels no guilt

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

"Rocket Fuel"

"Jet"

"Booster Rockets"
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

Mysterious

Baroque

Direct

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