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?
Surrealism

Imagism

Romanticism

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

Two

Eight

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

Enraged

Cynical

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

Rainwater

A red wheelbarrow

White chickens
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Tony Hoagland

Emily Dickinson
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A farm

An industrial city

A lakeside cottage

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?
Haiku

Villanelle

Nature poetry

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

Padgett Powell

Henry David Thoreau

Ezra Pound
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Metonymy

Anaphora

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?
Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

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

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on decorative language in peotry

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 show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To depict an average day of working in the field

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 demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it establishes an effective color contrast
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
Amy Lowell

H.D.

William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To establish background details and setting

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To show the climax of the main conflict
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Simplicity

Materiality

Utility

Spirituality
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?
Four

Seven

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1922

1932

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

The Wedge

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

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