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

Happy and upbeat

Straightforward and regretful

Dark and moody
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

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?
Complex metaphors

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay

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

Four

Six

Three
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
The speaker's love for his wife

Everyday pleasures

Farm labor

Religious guilt
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"I have eaten"

"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Erasure poetry

Imagist poetry

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?
The speaker's kitchen

A doctor's office

The speaker's farm

An orchard
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

Peaches

Pears
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice chest.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

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 guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook

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

Before the poem has begun

In the second stanza

In the first stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

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
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quatrains

Octaves

Monostiches

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

Regret

Envy

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

Guilt

Time

Taste
19 When was the poem published?
1938

1988

1933

1983
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?
Cold

Saccharine

Delicious

Sweet
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?
To describe their unremarkable flavor

To show the lingering memory it left behind

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"

"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?
Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

Moths emerging from cocoons

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Direct

Opaque

Baroque

Mysterious

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