The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
Mortality

City life

Simplicity

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

Romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Sixteen

Eight

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

Objective

Saccharine

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

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

A barn
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland

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?
Couplets

Tercets

Octaves

Quatrains
9 What is the poem's central image?
The white chickens

The white fence

The green tractor

The red wheelbarrow
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Erasure poetry

Villanelle

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

ABBA

ABCB

It doesn't have one
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

Rhyming couplets

Anaphora

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

Couplets

Line breaks

Punctuation
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?
An avoidance of clear and simple language

A fascination with wordplay and puns

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 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 establishes an effective color contrast

Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of an Imagist poet?
William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath

H.D.

Amy Lowell
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Confessional and tragic

Plain and unadorned

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 show the climax of the main conflict

To shift to an entirely different moment in time

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Materiality

Spirituality

Simplicity

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

References biblical floods

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

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

Seven

Eight

Twelve
24 When was the poem published?
1933

1932

1923

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

Paterson

The Wedge

Pictures from Bruegel

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