The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

Simplicity

Mortality

City life

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

Imagism

Surrealism

Romanticism

Neo-romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Sixteen

Four

Two

Eight
4 What word best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Objective

Cynical

Saccharine

Enraged
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?

A barn

White chickens

Rainwater

A red wheelbarrow
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?

H.D.

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

T.S. Eliot
7 What is the setting of the poem?

An industrial city

An orchard

A farm

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?

The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens

The green tractor

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

Villanelle

Haiku

Nature poetry

Erasure poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It doesn't have one

ABCB

ABBA

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

Padgett Powell

Bashō

Ezra Pound

Henry David Thoreau
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?

Rhyming couplets

Metonymy

Enjambment

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?

Line breaks

Punctuation

Couplets

Rustic imagery
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

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
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

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

H.D.

Amy Lowell

Sylvia Plath

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

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic

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 reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To establish background details and setting
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Simplicity

Utility

Materiality

Spirituality
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?

Four

Twelve

Eight

Seven
24 When was the poem published?

1933

1932

1922

1923
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

Spring and All

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

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