The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

Political upheaval

City life

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Neo-romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eight

Four

Two

Sixteen
4 What word best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Enraged

Saccharine

Objective

Cynical
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
White chickens

A barn

Rainwater

A red wheelbarrow
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A farm

An orchard

An industrial city

A lakeside cottage
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?
The green tractor

The white fence

The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Nature poetry

Haiku
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

ABAB

It doesn't have one

ABCB
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Bashō

Ezra Pound

Henry David Thoreau

Padgett Powell
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Anaphora

Rhyming couplets

Enjambment

Metonymy
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Punctuation

Line breaks

Rustic imagery
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on decorative language in peotry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To depict an average day of working in the field

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?
Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
H.D.

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic

Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To show the climax of the main conflict

To establish background details and setting

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Utility

Materiality

Spirituality

Simplicity
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

References biblical floods
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Eight

Twelve

Four

Seven
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1923

1922

1932
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Wedge

Pictures from Bruegel

Spring and All

Paterson

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