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

Princeton

The University of Pennsylvania

Yale
3 What object is glittering in the poem?

A mirror

A broken glass bottle

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?

Electrician

Doctor

Lawyer

Banker
6 What color is the bottle in the poem?

Red

Orange

Green

Blue
7 When was the poem published?

1938

1983

1930

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

Shards of glass

The hospital

Cinders

Concrete walls
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?

As a place with no natural light

As a secret garden

As a place where nothing can grow

As a bustling communal area
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?

Allegory

Enjambment

Extended metaphor

Metonymy
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?

Futurism

Social Realism

Romanticism

Imagism
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

A piling of woodchips

The bottom of a chimney

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

The politics of poetry

The mundanity of medical work

The progress of industry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?

As providing key insight into the human condition

As a distraction from his writing

As daily drudgery

As an unremarkable day job
17 What is the form of the poem?

Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet

Haiku
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Dark and sinister

Cheery and warm

Bombastic and verbose

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

Love

Lifelessness

Endurance

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 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?

"Glow"

"Reflect"

"Shine"

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

New York

Rutherford

Boston

Chicago
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?

Building a rhyme scheme

Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay

Making deft use of metaphor
25 How many lines are in the poem?

Twelve

Two

Ten

Twenty

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