The Red Wheelbarrow Quizzes

The Red Wheelbarrow Quiz

1 What is the main theme of the poem?

Mortality

Simplicity

Political upheaval

City life
2 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?

Romanticism

Imagism

Surrealism

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

Four

Sixteen

Two

Eight
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?

White chickens

A red wheelbarrow

Rainwater

A barn
6 Which of the following poets was associated with Imagism?

Tony Hoagland

H.D.

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson
7 What is the setting of the poem?

An orchard

A lakeside cottage

An industrial city

A farm
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Tercets

Octaves

Couplets

Quatrains
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?

Villanelle

Erasure poetry

Nature poetry

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?

Padgett Powell

Bashō

Ezra Pound

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

Rhyming couplets

Enjambment

Metonymy

Anaphora
14 What is not present in the poem?

Line breaks

Couplets

Rustic imagery

Punctuation
15 What was a core tenet of the Imagism movement?

A fascination with wordplay and puns

A focus on decorative language in peotry

A focus on the direct relay of imagery in poetry

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 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

H.D.

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

Confessional and tragic

Mysterious and cryptic

Elaborate and complex

Plain and unadorned
20 How does Williams utilize the image of chickens in the final stanza?

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

To show the climax of the main conflict
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Utility

Spirituality

Simplicity

Materiality
22 What function does rainwater serve in the poem?

Underscores the physical makeup of the wheelbarrow

Shows the wheelbarrow's rapid decline

Shows the farm has fallen on hard times

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

Seven

Eight

Twelve

Four
24 When was the poem published?

1922

1923

1933

1932
25 What was the name of the collection the poem was published in?

The Wedge

Paterson

Pictures from Bruegel

Spring and All

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