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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Cynical and sharp

Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful

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

The icebox

Apples

Oranges
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Bashō's haikus about autumn

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Shakespeare's love sonnets
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
Complex metaphors

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay

A prominent inclusion of dashes
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Eighteen

Six

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

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"I have eaten"

"and which"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Erasure poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry

Imagist 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 a villanelle.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a haiku.

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

Apples

Plums

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

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice skating rink.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's guilt over eating plums
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
In the second stanza

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun

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 imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quintains

Quatrains

Octaves

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

Frustration

Envy

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

Communication

Guilt

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1938

1988

1983

1933
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
All of the following

Tony Hoagland

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins
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 highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

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

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"

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

Moths emerging from cocoons

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

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

Opaque

Direct

Baroque

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