Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

The back wings of a hospital

A junkyard

A forest
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Princeton

Harvard

The University of Pennsylvania

Yale
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A mirror

A diamond

A broken glass bottle

A window
4 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Ten stanzas

Three stanzas

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

Lawyer

Banker

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

Blue

Orange

Green
7 When was the poem published?
1930

1983

1938

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

The hospital

Concrete walls

Cinders
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a secret garden

As a place with no natural light

As a bustling communal area

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

Enjambment

Metonymy

Extended metaphor
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Imagism

Social Realism

Futurism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?

Industrial imagery

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Quatrains
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
Partially burnt coal or wood

The bottom of a chimney

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 daily drudgery

As a distraction from his writing

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

Haiku

Free verse

Sonnet
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Understated and sharp

Dark and sinister

Cheery and warm

Bombastic and verbose
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Endurance

Lifelessness

Love

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

To underscore the frustrations of his professional life

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places

To characterize the hospital in which he worked
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Radiate"

"Shine"

"Reflect"

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

Rutherford

Chicago

Boston
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

Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay

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

Ten

Two

Twenty

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