The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Simplicity

Mortality

City life

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

Romanticism

Surrealism

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

Sixteen

Eight

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

Enraged

Saccharine

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

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

White chickens
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Tony Hoagland

Emily Dickinson
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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

The white fence

The green tractor

The white chickens
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Erasure poetry

Villanelle

Nature poetry

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

ABBA

It doesn't have one

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

Henry David Thoreau

Bashō

Padgett Powell
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Enjambment

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora

Metonymy
14 What is not present in the poem?
Couplets

Rustic imagery

Line breaks

Punctuation
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 depict an average day of working in the field

To emphasize the reliability of a particular farmhand

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene
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 demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
Sylvia Plath

William Carlos Williams

Amy Lowell

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

Elaborate and complex

Confessional and tragic

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 shift to an entirely different moment in time

To show the climax of the main conflict

To establish background details and setting
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Spirituality

Utility

Simplicity

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Twelve

Four

Eight

Seven
24 When was the poem published?
1922

1933

1923

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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