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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Happy and upbeat

Dark and moody

Cynical and sharp

Straightforward and regretful
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?
Bashō's haikus about autumn

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Shakespeare's love sonnets

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
Elaborate wordplay

The use of enjambment

A prominent inclusion of dashes

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

Six

Eighteen

Four
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
Religious guilt

Everyday pleasures

Farm labor

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

"you were probably"

"I have eaten"

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

Pastoral poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic
9 What is the poem's setting?
An orchard

The speaker's kitchen

The speaker's farm

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 sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?
Apples

Pears

Peaches

Plums
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It refers to an ice chest.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

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 marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

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 third stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

Before the poem has begun
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?
Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains

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

Frustration

Regret

Envy
18 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Taste

Time

Guilt

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

All of the following

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?
Delicious

Saccharine

Cold

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

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To reveal that he feels no guilt
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Jet"

"Lift Off"

"Booster Rockets"

"Rocket Fuel"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

Moths emerging from cocoons
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Mysterious

Baroque

Opaque

Direct

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