The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

Mortality

City life

Simplicity

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

Romanticism

Surrealism

Imagism

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

Four

Two

Sixteen

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

Cynical

Enraged

Objective

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

White chickens

A barn

Rainwater

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

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot

Tony Hoagland

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

A farm

A lakeside cottage

An industrial city

An orchard
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains
9 What is the poem's central image?

The white chickens

The red wheelbarrow

The white fence

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

Nature poetry

Haiku

Erasure poetry

Villanelle
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABCB

It doesn't have one

ABBA

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

Bashō

Ezra Pound

Henry David Thoreau

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?

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To depict an average day of working in the field

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 highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

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

H.D.

Sylvia Plath

William Carlos Williams

Amy Lowell
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 reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To show the climax of the main conflict

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?

Spirituality

Simplicity

Utility

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

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

Twelve

Eight

Four

Seven
24 When was the poem published?

1922

1932

1923

1933
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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