Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

A junkyard

The back wings of a hospital

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Yale

Princeton

Harvard

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

A broken glass bottle

A diamond

A mirror
4 How long is the poem?
Ten stanzas

Five stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Doctor

Electrician

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

Orange

Red

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1983

1963

1938

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

Cinders

Concrete walls

Shards of glass
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a bustling communal area

As a place where nothing can grow

As a secret garden

As a place with no natural light
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Extended metaphor

Metonymy

Enjambment

Allegory
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Futurism

Social Realism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?

Industrial imagery

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Monostiches
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
Logs on a fire

Partially burnt coal or wood

The bottom of a chimney

A piling of woodchips
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The progress of industry

The mundanity of medical work

The politics of poetry
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As an unremarkable day job

As providing key insight into the human condition

As a distraction from his writing

As daily drudgery
17 What is the form of the poem?
Sonnet

Villanelle

Haiku

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?
Danger

Love

Lifelessness

Endurance
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
To capture the dullness of a doctor's life

To characterize the hospital in which he worked

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?
"Radiate"

"Reflect"

"Glow"

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

Chicago

Boston

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

Reciting famous poems to patients

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Reading novels during his lunch break
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Making deft use of metaphor

Building a rhyme scheme

Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay
25 How many lines are in the poem?
Two

Twelve

Twenty

Ten

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