The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

City life

Simplicity

Political upheaval

Mortality
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?

Surrealism

Imagism

Neo-romanticism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Eight

Two

Four

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

Saccharine

Cynical

Enraged

Objective
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?

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?

A farm

An orchard

A lakeside cottage

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets
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?

Nature poetry

Villanelle

Haiku

Erasure poetry
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?

Padgett Powell

Ezra Pound

Bashō

Henry David Thoreau
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?

Enjambment

Metonymy

Anaphora

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?

Punctuation

Couplets

Line breaks

Rustic imagery
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

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 highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?

William Carlos Williams

H.D.

Amy Lowell

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 reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To establish background details and setting

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

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?

Seven

Eight

Twelve

Four
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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