The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Simplicity

Political upheaval

Mortality

City life
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Imagism

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Eight

Sixteen

Two
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?
A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

A barn

White chickens
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland
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?
Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?
The white chickens

The green tractor

The white fence

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?
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

Enjambment

Anaphora

Metonymy
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Punctuation

Line breaks

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

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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
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?
Sylvia Plath

H.D.

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex

Mysterious and cryptic

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?
Spirituality

Materiality

Simplicity

Utility
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

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

Seven

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1923

1933

1922
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Pictures from Bruegel

Spring and All

The Wedge

Paterson

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