Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
The back wings of a hospital

A junkyard

A forest

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

Harvard

The University of Pennsylvania

Princeton
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

Three stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Lawyer

Doctor

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

Red

Green

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1938

1963

1983

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

Shards of glass

Concrete walls

The hospital
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?
Metonymy

Enjambment

Extended metaphor

Allegory
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Social Realism

Futurism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

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

Monostiches

Quatrains

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

A piling of woodchips

The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The politics of poetry

The mundanity of medical work

The progress of industry
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?
Villanelle

Sonnet

Haiku

Free verse
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?
Endurance

Love

Lifelessness

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

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

"Radiate"

"Glow"

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

New York

Rutherford

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

Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Elaborate wordplay

Directly communicating imagery

Making deft use of metaphor

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

Twenty

Two

Ten

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