Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

A junkyard

The back wings of a hospital
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Yale

Harvard

The University of Pennsylvania

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

A window

A broken glass bottle

A diamond
4 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Two stanzas

Three stanzas

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

Lawyer

Electrician

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

Red

Orange

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1983

1938

1963

1930
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
The hospital

Shards of glass

Cinders

Concrete walls
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?
Enjambment

Metonymy

Allegory

Extended metaphor
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Imagism

Romanticism

Social Realism

Futurism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?

Punctuation

Industrial imagery
13 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Quatrains

Quatrains

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

Partially burnt coal or wood

Logs on a fire

The bottom of a chimney
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The progress of industry

The mundanity of medical work

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

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

As daily drudgery

As a distraction from his writing

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

Haiku

Villanelle

Sonnet
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?
Love

Endurance

Lifelessness

Danger
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
To underscore the frustrations of his professional life

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
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Shine"

"Reflect"

"Radiate"

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

New York

Chicago

Boston
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Writing poems on scraps of paper

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reading novels during his lunch break

Reciting famous poems to patients
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?
Two

Ten

Twelve

Twenty

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