The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

City life

Political upheaval

Mortality

Simplicity
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?

Surrealism

Neo-romanticism

Romanticism

Imagism
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Two

Eight

Sixteen

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

Enraged

Objective

Saccharine

Cynical
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?

H.D.

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Tony Hoagland
7 What is the setting of the poem?

A farm

An orchard

A lakeside cottage

An industrial city
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Octaves

Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains
9 What is the poem's central image?

The white fence

The green tractor

The red wheelbarrow

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

Nature poetry

Haiku

Villanelle

Erasure poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABCB

ABBA

It doesn't have one

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?

Anaphora

Metonymy

Enjambment

Rhyming couplets
14 What is not present in the poem?

Punctuation

Line breaks

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

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 depict an average day of working in the field

To show the central importance of the wheelbarrow in the scene

To set up an elaborate metaphor about nature

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

Amy Lowell

H.D.

Sylvia Plath

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

Plain and unadorned

Confessional and tragic

Elaborate and complex

Mysterious and cryptic
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?

To establish background details and setting

To reveal a hidden detail about the wheelbarrow's purpose

To show the climax of the main conflict

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

Materiality

Utility

Spirituality

Simplicity
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

References biblical floods

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

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

Seven

Twelve

Eight

Four
24 When was the poem published?

1923

1922

1932

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

Paterson

Spring and All

Pictures from Bruegel

The Wedge

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