Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

The back wings of a hospital

A junkyard

A forest
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Yale

Princeton

Harvard

The University of Pennsylvania
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A mirror

A window

A broken glass bottle

A diamond
4 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

Five stanzas

Two stanzas

Ten stanzas
5 Outside of writing, what was Williams's primary occupation?
Banker

Electrician

Doctor

Lawyer
6 What color is the bottle in the poem?
Red

Blue

Green

Orange
7 When was the poem published?
1963

1938

1930

1983
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Cinders

Shards of glass

Concrete walls

The hospital
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a place where nothing can grow

As a place with no natural light

As a secret garden

As a bustling communal area
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Extended metaphor

Allegory

Metonymy
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Social Realism

Romanticism

Imagism

Futurism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Industrial imagery

Punctuation
13 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Monostiches

Quatrains

Couplets
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips

The bottom of a chimney

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The mundanity of medical work

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The politics of poetry

The progress of industry
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As providing key insight into the human condition

As a distraction from his writing

As daily drudgery

As an unremarkable day job
17 What is the form of the poem?
Haiku

Villanelle

Sonnet

Free verse
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Cheery and warm

Dark and sinister

Bombastic and verbose

Understated and sharp
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Lifelessness

Endurance

Danger

Love
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
To characterize the hospital in which he worked

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life

To underscore the frustrations of his professional life
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Radiate"

"Reflect"

"Shine"

"Glow"
22 Where did Williams practice medicine for most of his career?
Boston

Rutherford

New York

Chicago
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Reciting famous poems to patients

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Reading novels during his lunch break
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay

Building a rhyme scheme

Making deft use of metaphor
25 How many lines are in the poem?
Twenty

Twelve

Ten

Two

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