Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

The back wings of a hospital

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

A junkyard
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
The University of Pennsylvania

Yale

Princeton

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

A mirror

A broken glass bottle

A window
4 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Five stanzas

Ten stanzas

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

Lawyer

Doctor

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

Blue

Red

Orange
7 When was the poem published?
1983

1930

1963

1938
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Shards of glass

The hospital

Cinders

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

As a secret garden

As a bustling communal area

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

Metonymy

Allegory

Enjambment
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Futurism

Social Realism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?

Punctuation

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

Monostiches

Quatrains

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

The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips
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 an unremarkable day job

As daily drudgery

As a distraction from his writing
17 What is the form of the poem?
Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet

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

Cheery and warm

Understated and sharp

Dark and sinister
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Love

Lifelessness

Endurance

Danger
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
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

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Radiate"

"Shine"

"Glow"

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

Rutherford

Boston

Chicago
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Reading novels during his lunch break

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Reciting famous poems to patients

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Making deft use of metaphor

Directly communicating imagery

Building a rhyme scheme

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

Two

Twenty

Ten

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