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1 What is the tone of the poem?
Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful

Happy and upbeat

Cynical and sharp
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
Apples

The icebox

Oranges

The kitchen sink
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Shakespeare's love sonnets

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
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?
Elaborate wordplay

The use of enjambment

Complex metaphors

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

Four

Three

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

Farm labor

Religious guilt

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"I have eaten"

"and which"

"so sweet"

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

War epic

Erasure poetry

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

The speaker's kitchen

A doctor's office

An orchard
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is written in free verse.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?
Pears

Apples

Plums

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

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It is an older term for refrigerator.
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?
Before the poem has begun

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

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

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Monostiches

Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains
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

Guilt

Communication

Taste
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?
Cold

Delicious

Sweet

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

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To show the lingering memory it left behind
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?
"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"

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

The speaker's fear of the dark

A mother–daughter relationship

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

Baroque

Opaque

Direct

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