The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

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

City life

Mortality

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Surrealism

Imagism

Neo-romanticism

Romanticism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Sixteen

Four

Eight

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

Cynical

Enraged

Objective
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?
T.S. Eliot

Tony Hoagland

Emily Dickinson

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

A farm

An industrial city

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

Tercets

Octaves

Couplets
9 What is the poem's central image?
The green tractor

The white fence

The red wheelbarrow

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

Nature poetry

Haiku

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

It doesn't have one

ABCB

ABAB
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Henry David Thoreau

Padgett Powell

Bashō

Ezra Pound
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Enjambment

Metonymy

Anaphora

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

Rustic imagery

Couplets

Line breaks
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

A fascination with wordplay and puns

An avoidance of clear and simple language
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 depict an average day of working in the field

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?
Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it highlights that there is something wrong with these chickens

Because it establishes an effective color contrast
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
William Carlos Williams

H.D.

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic

Mysterious and cryptic

Elaborate and complex
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To establish background details and setting

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

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?
References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

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

Seven

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1923

1932

1922
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
Spring and All

The Wedge

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

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