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?

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Romanticism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Eight

Two

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

Saccharine

Enraged

Objective

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

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

White chickens

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

Tony Hoagland

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

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

A farm

A lakeside cottage

An orchard

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?

The white fence

The red wheelbarrow

The green tractor

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

Nature poetry

Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Haiku
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABBA

It doesn't have one

ABAB

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

Henry David Thoreau

Bashō

Ezra Pound

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?

Line breaks

Rustic imagery

Couplets

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

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

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 depict an average day of working in the field

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene
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 highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

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

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell

H.D.

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

Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To establish background details and setting

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

Spirituality

Utility

Materiality
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

Seven

Four
24 When was the poem published?

1922

1932

1933

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

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

Paterson

Spring and All

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