Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A junkyard

A forest

The back wings of a hospital

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

The University of Pennsylvania

Princeton

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

A diamond

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

Banker

Lawyer

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

Red

Orange

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1930

1938

1963

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

Concrete walls

Shards of glass

The hospital
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a bustling communal area

As a place where nothing can grow

As a place with no natural light

As a secret garden
10 What literary device does Williams use throughout the poem?
Metonymy

Enjambment

Allegory

Extended metaphor
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Futurism

Romanticism

Social Realism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

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

Monostiches

Couplets

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

Logs on a fire

Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The politics of poetry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The mundanity of medical work

The progress of industry
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?
Sonnet

Villanelle

Haiku

Free verse
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?
Lifelessness

Love

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 highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places

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

"Reflect"

"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?
Reading novels during his lunch break

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reciting famous poems to patients

Writing poems on scraps of paper
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Building a rhyme scheme

Making deft use of metaphor

Directly communicating imagery

Elaborate wordplay
25 How many lines are in the poem?
Twenty

Twelve

Ten

Two

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