The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

Political upheaval

City life

Mortality

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?

Neo-romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Sixteen

Four

Eight

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

Enraged

Saccharine

Cynical

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

Rainwater

A barn

White chickens

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

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

T.S. Eliot

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

Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains
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?

Erasure poetry

Haiku

Villanelle

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?

Ezra Pound

Padgett Powell

Henry David Thoreau

Bashō
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora

Enjambment

Metonymy
14 What is not present in the poem?

Couplets

Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Line breaks
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

A focus on decorative language in peotry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

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 emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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 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

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath

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

Mysterious and cryptic

Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex
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?

Materiality

Utility

Simplicity

Spirituality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times
23 How many lines does the poem have?

Seven

Four

Twelve

Eight
24 When was the poem published?

1932

1922

1933

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

The Wedge

Pictures from Bruegel

Paterson

Spring and All

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