Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
A forest

A junkyard

The back wings of a hospital

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

The University of Pennsylvania

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?
Ten stanzas

Five stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Banker

Lawyer

Doctor
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

The hospital

Concrete walls
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a secret garden

As a place where nothing can grow

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

Enjambment

Metonymy
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Imagism

Romanticism

Social Realism

Futurism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

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

Quatrains

Monostiches

Couplets
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips

Logs on a fire

The bottom of a chimney
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The mundanity of medical work

The politics of poetry

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

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

As providing key insight into the human condition

As daily drudgery

As a distraction from his writing
17 What is the form of the poem?
Sonnet

Haiku

Free verse

Villanelle
18 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Understated and sharp

Bombastic and verbose

Dark and sinister

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

Love

Lifelessness

Endurance
20 Why does Williams choose such a bleak setting for the poem?
To underscore the frustrations of his professional life

To characterize the hospital in which he worked

To capture the dullness of a doctor's life

To highlight the possibility of discovering beauty in unexpected places
21 What word does Williams use to describe the broken glass?
"Glow"

"Radiate"

"Reflect"

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

Rutherford

New York

Chicago
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break

Writing poems on scraps of paper
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Directly communicating imagery

Making deft use of metaphor

Building a rhyme scheme

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

Twelve

Twenty

Ten

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