The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

Political upheaval

City life

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Surrealism

Neo-romanticism

Romanticism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Sixteen

Two

Eight

Four
4 What word best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Enraged

Objective

Saccharine

Cynical
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

A barn
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 lakeside cottage

A farm

An orchard

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the poem's central image?
The white fence

The green tractor

The white chickens

The red wheelbarrow
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Erasure poetry

Nature poetry

Villanelle

Haiku
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It doesn't have one

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Henry David Thoreau

Ezra Pound

Padgett Powell

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

Metonymy

Enjambment

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?
Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Couplets

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

A fascination with wordplay and puns

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 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

To depict an average day of working in the field
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 establishes an effective color contrast

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?
William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell

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

Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic

Mysterious and cryptic
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 reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To shift to an entirely different moment in time
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?
References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

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

Four

Seven

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1933

1932

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

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

Paterson

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