The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Political upheaval

City life

Mortality

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

Surrealism

Imagism

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

Eight

Four

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

Cynical

Saccharine

Objective
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?
H.D.

T.S. Eliot

Tony Hoagland

Emily Dickinson
7 What is the setting of the poem?
An orchard

A lakeside cottage

A farm

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

Octaves

Couplets

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

The white chickens

The green tractor

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

Nature poetry

Haiku

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Ezra Pound

Henry David Thoreau

Padgett Powell

Bashō
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Anaphora

Rhyming couplets

Metonymy

Enjambment
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Rustic imagery

Punctuation

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

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

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 depict an average day of working in the field

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?
Because it establishes an effective color contrast

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
Amy Lowell

Sylvia Plath

H.D.

William Carlos Williams
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Mysterious and cryptic

Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To establish background details and setting

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To show the climax of the main conflict
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Simplicity

Utility

Materiality

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

References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

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

Twelve

Eight

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1923

1922

1932
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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