The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

Simplicity

Political upheaval

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

Imagism

Romanticism

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

Two

Sixteen

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

Saccharine

Objective

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

A barn

Rainwater

A red wheelbarrow
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
Tony Hoagland

H.D.

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot
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?
Octaves

Tercets

Couplets

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

The red wheelbarrow

The green tractor

The white fence
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Haiku

Nature poetry

Erasure poetry

Villanelle
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABCB

It doesn't have one

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

Padgett Powell

Bashō

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

Enjambment

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?
Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Couplets
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

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 depict an average day of working in the field

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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 shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

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

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell

H.D.
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic

Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
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

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

Spirituality

Utility

Simplicity
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?
Seven

Four

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1923

1933

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

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

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