The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

Simplicity

Political upheaval

City life
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Neo-romanticism

Romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Four

Eight

Sixteen
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?
A barn

White chickens

Rainwater

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

T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A farm

An industrial city

An orchard

A lakeside cottage
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Octaves

Couplets

Quatrains
9 What is the poem's central image?
The red wheelbarrow

The white fence

The white chickens

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

Haiku

Nature poetry

Erasure 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?
Henry David Thoreau

Padgett Powell

Bashō

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

Enjambment

Anaphora

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

Line breaks

Rustic imagery

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

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on decorative language in peotry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
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

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

William Carlos Williams

H.D.

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex

Mysterious and cryptic

Confessional and tragic
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 show the climax of the main conflict

To shift to an entirely different moment in time
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Utility

Spirituality

Materiality

Simplicity
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1933

1932

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

Pictures from Bruegel

Paterson

The Wedge

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