The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?
City life

Simplicity

Political upheaval

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

Neo-romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Eight

Sixteen

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

Saccharine

Objective

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

Rainwater

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?
Emily Dickinson

T.S. Eliot

H.D.

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?
An industrial city

A farm

A lakeside cottage

An orchard
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
9 What is the poem's central image?
The white fence

The white chickens

The green tractor

The red wheelbarrow
10 What is the genre of the poem?
Villanelle

Erasure poetry

Haiku

Nature poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

It doesn't have one
12 Which poet does Williams most resemble in this particular poem?
Padgett Powell

Ezra Pound

Bashō

Henry David Thoreau
13 Which of the following techniques does the poem employ?
Enjambment

Anaphora

Metonymy

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?
Rustic imagery

Punctuation

Couplets

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

A fascination with wordplay and puns

An avoidance of clear and simple language

A focus on decorative language in peotry
16 How does Williams use the word "depends" in the first line?
To depict an average day of working in the field

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
17 Why does Williams use the word "white" to describe the chickens in the final stanza?
Because it demonstrates the generic quality of these particular chickens

Because it shows the chicken's antagonism towards the wheelbarrow

Because it establishes an effective color contrast

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

Sylvia Plath

Amy Lowell

H.D.
19 How was Williams's writing style often described?
Mysterious and cryptic

Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic

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

To establish background details and setting

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To shift to an entirely different moment in time
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Materiality

Simplicity

Spirituality

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

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods
23 How many lines does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Twelve

Eight
24 When was the poem published?
1932

1922

1923

1933
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?
The Wedge

Pictures from Bruegel

Spring and All

Paterson

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