Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

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

A forest

A junkyard

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

The University of Pennsylvania

Harvard

Yale
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A broken glass bottle

A mirror

A window

A diamond
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

Electrician

Lawyer

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

Orange

Red

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1930

1938

1963

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

Cinders

Concrete walls

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

Metonymy

Enjambment

Allegory
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Futurism

Imagism

Social Realism

Romanticism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

A piling of woodchips

Partially burnt coal or wood

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The politics of poetry

The progress of industry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The mundanity of medical work
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As a distraction from his writing

As daily drudgery

As an unremarkable day job

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

Haiku

Sonnet

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

Cheery and warm

Dark and sinister

Understated and sharp
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Danger

Endurance

Lifelessness

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

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life
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?
Rutherford

New York

Chicago

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

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break
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?
Twenty

Twelve

Ten

Two

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