Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

A junkyard

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

The back wings of a hospital
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
The University of Pennsylvania

Yale

Princeton

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

A window

A broken glass bottle

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?
Banker

Lawyer

Doctor

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

Green

Orange

Red
7 When was the poem published?
1938

1930

1983

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

Shards of glass

Concrete walls

The hospital
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a place where nothing can grow

As a secret garden

As a bustling communal area

As a place with no natural light
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Extended metaphor

Allegory

Metonymy

Enjambment
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Futurism

Imagism

Romanticism

Social Realism
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?
Logs on a fire

A piling of woodchips

The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The mundanity of medical work

The progress of industry

The politics of poetry
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As an unremarkable day job

As a distraction from his writing

As providing key insight into the human condition

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

Free verse

Haiku

Sonnet
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Dark and sinister

Understated and sharp

Bombastic and verbose

Cheery and warm
19 What do cinders symbolize in the poem?
Love

Endurance

Lifelessness

Danger
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places

To underscore the frustrations of his professional life

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life

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

"Radiate"

"Glow"

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

New York

Boston

Rutherford
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Reading novels during his lunch break

Reciting famous poems to patients

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay

Making deft use of metaphor

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

Twelve

Twenty

Two

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