The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
City life

Mortality

Simplicity

Political upheaval
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eight

Two

Four

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

Enraged

Cynical

Objective
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
A barn

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

H.D.
7 What is the setting of the poem?
An orchard

A lakeside cottage

A farm

An industrial city
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the poem's central image?
The red wheelbarrow

The green tractor

The white chickens

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

Villanelle

Nature poetry

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

ABBA

It doesn't have one

ABCB
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Henry David Thoreau

Ezra Pound

Bashō

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

Enjambment

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?
Line breaks

Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Couplets
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
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

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?
Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

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
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
William Carlos Williams

H.D.

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Confessional and tragic

Mysterious and cryptic

Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
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

To show the climax of the main conflict
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Simplicity

Materiality

Spirituality

Utility
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Eight

Twelve

Seven

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1933

1923

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

The Wedge

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

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