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

Romanticism

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Eight

Four

Sixteen

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

Objective

Enraged

Saccharine

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

Rainwater

A barn

A red wheelbarrow

White chickens
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?

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?

The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens

The white fence

The green tractor
10 What is the genre of the poem?

Haiku

Villanelle

Erasure poetry

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB

It doesn't have one
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?

Metonymy

Anaphora

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Couplets

Punctuation
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language
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 emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

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 demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?

William Carlos Williams

Amy Lowell

Sylvia Plath

H.D.
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?

Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic

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

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

To establish background details and setting
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 farm has fallen on hard times

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline
23 How many lines does the poem have?

Seven

Twelve

Eight

Four
24 When was the poem published?

1932

1923

1922

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

Spring and All

Paterson

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