Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

A junkyard

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

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

The University of Pennsylvania

Harvard

Princeton
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A broken glass bottle

A mirror

A diamond

A window
4 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Three stanzas

Ten stanzas

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

Electrician

Lawyer

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

Green

Red

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1930

1938

1963

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

Cinders

Shards of glass

Concrete walls
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a bustling communal area

As a place with no natural light

As a place where nothing can grow

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

Allegory

Extended metaphor

Enjambment
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Futurism

Imagism

Social Realism
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?
The bottom of a chimney

Logs on a fire

A piling of woodchips

Partially burnt coal or wood
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 providing key insight into the human condition

As an unremarkable day job

As a distraction from his writing

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?
Dark and sinister

Bombastic and verbose

Cheery and warm

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

Danger

Love

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

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places

To characterize the hospital in which he worked

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

"Shine"

"Radiate"

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

New York

Boston

Chicago
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?
Directly communicating imagery

Making deft use of metaphor

Building a rhyme scheme

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

Ten

Two

Twenty

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