Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A junkyard

The back wings of a hospital

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

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 window

A mirror

A broken glass bottle

A diamond
4 How long is the poem?
Ten stanzas

Five stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Doctor

Electrician

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

Orange

Red

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1983

1930

1938

1963
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Cinders

Concrete walls

Shards of glass

The hospital
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a bustling communal area

As a secret garden

As a place with no natural light

As a place where nothing can grow
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Extended metaphor

Allegory

Enjambment

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

Couplets

Quatrains
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The politics of poetry

The progress of industry

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

As a distraction from his writing

As daily drudgery

As providing key insight into the human condition
17 What is the form of the poem?
Free verse

Villanelle

Haiku

Sonnet
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bombastic and verbose

Understated and sharp

Dark and sinister

Cheery and warm
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Lifelessness

Endurance

Love

Danger
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?
"Reflect"

"Shine"

"Glow"

"Radiate"
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?
Reading novels during his lunch break

Reciting famous poems to patients

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Directly communicating imagery

Making deft use of metaphor

Elaborate wordplay

Building a rhyme scheme
25 How many lines are in the poem?
Twelve

Ten

Two

Twenty

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