Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

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

A junkyard

The back wings of a hospital

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

The University of Pennsylvania

Yale

Princeton
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A diamond

A mirror

A window

A broken glass bottle
4 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Three stanzas

Five stanzas

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

Electrician

Lawyer

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

Orange

Blue

Green
7 When was the poem published?
1983

1963

1938

1930
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Shards of glass

Concrete walls

Cinders

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

As a bustling communal area

As a place with no natural light

As a secret garden
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Extended metaphor

Metonymy

Enjambment

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

Romanticism

Futurism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Industrial imagery

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Quatrains
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
A piling of woodchips

The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The politics of poetry

The mundanity of medical work

The progress of industry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As providing key insight into the human condition

As a distraction from his writing

As an unremarkable day job

As daily drudgery
17 What is the form of the poem?
Free verse

Sonnet

Haiku

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

Dark and sinister

Understated and sharp

Bombastic and verbose
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Endurance

Danger

Lifelessness

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

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life

To underscore the frustrations of his professional life

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Glow"

"Shine"

"Reflect"

"Radiate"
22 Where did Williams practice medicine for most of his career?
New York

Rutherford

Chicago

Boston
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break

Writing poems on scraps of paper
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Building a rhyme scheme

Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay

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

Ten

Twenty

Two

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