The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Simplicity

Mortality

City life

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

Neo-romanticism

Romanticism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Sixteen

Eight

Two
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?
A barn

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

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

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

H.D.
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A lakeside cottage

An orchard

A farm

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

Couplets

Tercets

Octaves
9 What is the poem's central image?
The green tractor

The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens

The white fence
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Erasure poetry

Haiku

Villanelle
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

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

Henry David Thoreau

Ezra Pound

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

Rhyming couplets

Metonymy

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Line breaks

Punctuation

Rustic imagery
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

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 show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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 shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

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

H.D.

Sylvia Plath

William Carlos Williams
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 shift to an entirely different moment in time

To show the climax of the main conflict

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Utility

Simplicity

Materiality

Spirituality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Four

Twelve

Eight

Seven
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1923

1933

1922
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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