The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

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

Mortality

City life

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Neo-romanticism

Surrealism

Imagism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Sixteen

Two

Four

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

Objective

Cynical

Saccharine
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

A barn

White chickens
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?
A farm

An industrial city

An orchard

A lakeside cottage
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
9 What is the poem's central image?
The red wheelbarrow

The white chickens

The green tractor

The white fence
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Haiku

Erasure poetry

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

It doesn't have one

ABCB

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?
Metonymy

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Punctuation
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

A focus on decorative language in peotry

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 show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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 shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it establishes an effective color contrast
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
H.D.

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath
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 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?
Utility

Materiality

Spirituality

Simplicity
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

References biblical floods

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

Seven

Eight

Four
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1932

1923

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Pictures from Bruegel

Paterson

The Wedge

Spring and All

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