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?

The University of Pennsylvania

Princeton

Harvard

Yale
3 What object is glittering in the poem?

A window

A broken glass bottle

A mirror

A diamond
4 How long is the poem?

Five stanzas

Three stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Electrician

Doctor

Lawyer

Banker
6 What color is the bottle in the poem?

Red

Green

Blue

Orange
7 When was the poem published?

1930

1938

1963

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

The hospital

Shards of glass

Concrete walls

Cinders
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?

Allegory

Extended metaphor

Metonymy

Enjambment
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?

Imagism

Romanticism

Futurism

Social Realism
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?

A piling of woodchips

Logs on a fire

The bottom of a chimney

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

The politics of poetry

The mundanity of medical work

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The progress of industry
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?

As a distraction from his writing

As providing key insight into the human condition

As an unremarkable day job

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

Free verse

Sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Understated and sharp

Bombastic and verbose

Cheery and warm

Dark and sinister
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 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?

"Reflect"

"Glow"

"Radiate"

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

Rutherford

Boston

New York

Chicago
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Reading novels during his lunch break

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

Ten

Twenty

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