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

Dark and moody

Happy and upbeat

Straightforward and regretful
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
The kitchen sink

Oranges

The icebox

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?
Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Shakespeare's love sonnets

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?
The use of enjambment

Complex metaphors

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Six

Eighteen

Three

Four
6 What do plums represent in the poem?
Everyday pleasures

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

Religious guilt
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"you were probably"

"and which"

"so sweet"

"I have eaten"
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral poetry

War epic

Erasure poetry

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

An orchard

A doctor's office

The speaker's farm
10 What is the poem's form and meter?
The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a villanelle.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?
Plums

Apples

Pears

Peaches
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?
It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It refers to an ice chest.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?
The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's guilt over eating plums
14 When does the poem's climax occur?
Before the poem has begun

In the third stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?
The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

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
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?
Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains

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

Frustration

Happiness

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

Guilt

Communication

Time
19 When was the poem published?
1938

1933

1983

1988
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?
Saccharine

Cold

Sweet

Delicious
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 reveal that he feels no guilt

To describe their unremarkable flavor
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?
A mother–daughter relationship

Moths emerging from cocoons

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

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

Opaque

Mysterious

Direct

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