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 junkyard

A forest
2 Where did William Carlos Williams study medicine?
Princeton

Harvard

Yale

The University of Pennsylvania
3 What object is glittering in the poem?
A window

A mirror

A diamond

A broken glass bottle
4 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Three stanzas

Two stanzas

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

Electrician

Banker

Lawyer
6 What color is the bottle in the poem?
Orange

Red

Blue

Green
7 When was the poem published?
1963

1938

1930

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

Concrete walls

The hospital

Shards of glass
9 How is the setting characterized in the text?
As a place with no natural light

As a place where nothing can grow

As a bustling communal area

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

Allegory

Extended metaphor

Metonymy
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Social Realism

Futurism

Romanticism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Quatrains
14 What is the meaning of the word "cinders" in the poem?
A piling of woodchips

Partially burnt coal or wood

The bottom of a chimney

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The mundanity of medical work

The politics of poetry

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?
Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet

Haiku
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

Danger

Endurance

Lifelessness
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?
"Shine"

"Radiate"

"Glow"

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

Chicago

Rutherford

New York
23 What literary activity did Williams often engage in during work?
Reciting famous poems to patients

Workshopping pieces with other doctors at the office

Reading novels during his lunch break

Writing poems on scraps of paper
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?
Two

Twenty

Twelve

Ten

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