Between Walls Quizzes

Between Walls Quiz

1 What is the poem's setting?
The back wings of a hospital

A forest

The streets of Rutherford, New Jersey

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

The University of Pennsylvania

Harvard

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

A diamond

A mirror

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

Three stanzas

Ten stanzas

Two stanzas
5 Outside of writing, what was Williams's primary occupation?
Lawyer

Doctor

Banker

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

Red

Orange

Blue
7 When was the poem published?
1930

1938

1983

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

The hospital

Concrete walls

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

As a bustling communal area

As a place with no natural light

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

Extended metaphor

Metonymy

Allegory
11 What literary movement was Williams associated with?
Futurism

Social Realism

Romanticism

Imagism
12 What does the poem NOT feature?
Punctuation

Industrial imagery
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?
The bottom of a chimney

Partially burnt coal or wood

A piling of woodchips

Logs on a fire
15 What is a primary theme of the poem?
The mundanity of medical work

The possibility of beauty in unexpected places

The progress of industry

The politics of poetry
16 How did Williams view his work as doctor?
As a distraction from his writing

As an unremarkable day job

As daily drudgery

As providing key insight into the human condition
17 What is the form of the poem?
Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet

Haiku
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?
Danger

Endurance

Love

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"

"Glow"

"Radiate"

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

Rutherford

Chicago

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

Writing poems on scraps of paper

Reciting famous poems to patients

Reading novels during his lunch break
24 What did Williams value most in style?
Elaborate wordplay

Building a rhyme scheme

Making deft use of metaphor

Directly communicating imagery
25 How many lines are in the poem?
Ten

Two

Twenty

Twelve

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