The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Simplicity

City life

Mortality

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

Surrealism

Imagism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eight

Four

Two

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

Enraged

Objective

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

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

White chickens
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?
An industrial city

A farm

An orchard

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

Tercets

Octaves

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

The white chickens

The green tractor

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

Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Haiku
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?
Padgett Powell

Bashō

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anaphora

Metonymy

Enjambment
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Punctuation
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

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 emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature
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.

William Carlos Williams

Amy Lowell

Sylvia Plath
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic

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 shift to an entirely different moment in time

To establish background details and setting

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

Simplicity

Spirituality

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

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

Seven

Eight

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1923

1922

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

Spring and All

Paterson

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