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 forest

A junkyard
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Harvard

Yale

The University of Pennsylvania

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

A mirror

A window

A broken glass bottle
4 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Ten stanzas

Three stanzas

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

Electrician

Banker

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

Blue

Green

Red
7 When was the poem published?
1963

1930

1938

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

The hospital

Concrete walls

Shards of glass
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a place with no natural light

As a bustling communal area

As a secret garden

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

Metonymy

Enjambment

Allegory
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Imagism

Futurism

Social Realism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Industrial imagery

Punctuation
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?
The bottom of a chimney

A piling of woodchips

Logs on a fire

Partially burnt coal or wood
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The progress of industry

The politics of poetry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The mundanity of medical work
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As providing key insight into the human condition

As a distraction from his writing

As an unremarkable day job

As daily drudgery
17 What is the form of the poem?
Villanelle

Sonnet

Free verse

Haiku
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Cheery and warm

Understated and sharp

Dark and sinister

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

Danger

Lifelessness

Endurance
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 characterize the hospital in which he worked

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Reflect"

"Radiate"

"Shine"

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

Chicago

New York

Boston
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break

Writing poems on scraps of paper

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

Making deft use of metaphor

Directly communicating imagery

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

Two

Twenty

Ten

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