The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

Simplicity

City life

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

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Four

Eight

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

Objective

Saccharine

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

A red wheelbarrow

A barn

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 lakeside cottage

A farm

An orchard

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
9 What is the poem's central image?
The white chickens

The white fence

The red wheelbarrow

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

Villanelle

Haiku

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

ABCB

ABAB

It doesn't have one
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Bashō

Padgett Powell

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?
Rustic imagery

Couplets

Line breaks

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

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A fascination with wordplay and puns
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 set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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 establishes an effective color contrast

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

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?
Mysterious and cryptic

Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To establish background details and setting

To show the climax of the main conflict

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?
Simplicity

Spirituality

Materiality

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

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Seven

Eight

Twelve

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1923

1933

1922
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Wedge

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

Paterson

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