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The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

City life

Simplicity

Political upheaval

Mortality
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?

Imagism

Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Eight

Sixteen

Two

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

Cynical

Saccharine

Enraged

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

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

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

A farm

A lakeside cottage

An orchard

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 fence

The white chickens

The red wheelbarrow

The green tractor
10 What is the genre of the poem?

Haiku

Villanelle

Erasure poetry

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

ABBA

ABAB

It doesn't have one

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

Padgett Powell

Bashō

Ezra Pound

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

Enjambment

Anaphora

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?

Rustic imagery

Punctuation

Couplets

Line breaks
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

An avoidance of clear and simple language
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 show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To depict an average day of working in the field
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?

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams

H.D.

Sylvia Plath
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 show the climax of the main conflict

To establish background details and setting

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To shift to an entirely different moment in time
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Simplicity

Spirituality

Materiality

Utility
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline
23 How many lines does the poem have?

Seven

Four

Twelve

Eight
24 When was the poem published?

1922

1933

1923

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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