The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

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

City life

Simplicity

Mortality
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism

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

Sixteen

Four

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

Saccharine

Objective

Enraged
5 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
White chickens

A barn

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
Tony Hoagland

T.S. Eliot

H.D.

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?
Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves

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

The white chickens

The white fence

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

Nature poetry

Villanelle

Erasure poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABCB

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

Padgett Powell

Henry David Thoreau

Bashō
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Enjambment

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?
Line breaks

Punctuation

Rustic imagery

Couplets
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

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 set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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
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 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
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
Sylvia Plath

H.D.

Amy Lowell

William Carlos Williams
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned

Elaborate and complex

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?
To show the climax of the main conflict

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
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Materiality

Utility

Simplicity

Spirituality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?
Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

References biblical floods

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

Eight

Twelve

Seven
24 When was the poem published?
1923

1933

1932

1922
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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