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

Cynical and sharp

Straightforward and regretful

Dark and moody
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?
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

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay

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

Eighteen

Four

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

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures

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

"so sweet"

"and which"

"you were probably"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Imagist poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?
A doctor's office

An orchard

The speaker's kitchen

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

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is written in free verse.

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

Peaches

Plums

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

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice chest.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

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

Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the third stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quatrains

Monostiches

Octaves

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

Happiness

Frustration

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

Guilt

Time

Taste
19 When was the poem published?
1983

1933

1988

1938
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?
Jennifer O'Grady

All of the following

Billy Collins

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

Delicious

Saccharine

Cold
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?
To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To reveal that he feels no guilt

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?
"Rocket Fuel"

"Lift Off"

"Jet"

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

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?
Baroque

Opaque

Mysterious

Direct

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