The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed April 16, 2022

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

Mortality

Simplicity

City life

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

Romanticism

Surrealism

Neo-romanticism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Sixteen

Eight

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?

A red wheelbarrow

White chickens

Rainwater

A barn
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?

T.S. Eliot

Tony Hoagland

Emily Dickinson

H.D.
7 What is the setting of the poem?

A farm

A lakeside cottage

An industrial city

An orchard
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves

Tercets
9 What is the poem's central image?

The green tractor

The white chickens

The white fence

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

Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Haiku

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

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

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

Padgett Powell

Henry David Thoreau

Bashō

Ezra Pound
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?

Enjambment

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?

Rustic imagery

Punctuation

Line breaks

Couplets
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A fascination with wordplay and puns

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 establishes an effective color contrast

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

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

H.D.

William Carlos Williams

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

Mysterious and cryptic

Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned
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?

Utility

Spirituality

Simplicity

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods

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

Eight

Seven

Twelve

Four
24 When was the poem published?

1923

1933

1922

1932
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

The Wedge

Spring and All

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

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