The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Simplicity

City life

Mortality

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

Surrealism

Imagism

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

Sixteen

Four

Eight
4 What word best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Saccharine

Enraged

Cynical

Objective
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
A barn

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
H.D.

Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A lakeside cottage

An industrial city

A farm

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

Quatrains

Octaves

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

The green tractor

The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Villanelle

Haiku

Nature poetry

Erasure 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?
Metonymy

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?
Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Couplets

Punctuation
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 the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A focus on decorative language in peotry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To depict an average day of working in the field

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 establishes an effective color contrast

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?
Sylvia Plath

H.D.

William Carlos Williams

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To show the climax of the main conflict

To establish background details and setting

To shift to an entirely different moment in time
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

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

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

Eight

Four

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1923

1922

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Wedge

Paterson

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

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