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

Romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Sixteen

Eight

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

Objective

Cynical

Enraged
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Rainwater

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

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

Emily Dickinson

H.D.

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A lakeside cottage

An industrial city

An orchard

A farm
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Couplets

Tercets

Octaves

Quatrains
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?
Villanelle

Nature poetry

Haiku

Erasure 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?
Bashō

Ezra Pound

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anaphora

Enjambment

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

Rustic imagery

Couplets

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

A focus on decorative language in peotry

An avoidance of clear and simple language

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 emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To depict an average day of working in the field

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene
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 demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

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

H.D.

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
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

To establish background details and setting
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Simplicity

Utility

Spirituality

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

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Twelve

Eight
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1932

1922

1923
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Spring and All

The Wedge

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

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