The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
City life

Simplicity

Mortality

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

Surrealism

Imagism

Neo-romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Sixteen

Two

Four

Eight
4 What word best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Objective

Enraged

Cynical

Saccharine
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
A red wheelbarrow

A barn

Rainwater

White chickens
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
Tony Hoagland

H.D.

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot
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?
Octaves

Quatrains

Tercets

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

The red wheelbarrow

The white fence

The white chickens
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Haiku

Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Nature poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCB

ABAB

ABBA

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

Bashō

Henry David Thoreau

Padgett Powell
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Anaphora

Metonymy

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?
Line breaks

Punctuation

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 focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

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 highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

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

H.D.

Sylvia Plath
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Mysterious and cryptic

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic
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?
Spirituality

Utility

Simplicity

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Eight

Twelve

Seven

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1923

1932

1922

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Spring and All

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

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