Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quizzes

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quiz

1 What painter does Williams reference in the poem?
Hieronymus Bosch

Vincent Van Gogh

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Johannes Vermeer
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Monostiches

Rhyming couplets

Octaves

Tercets
3 What is the main subject matter of the poem?
Springtime

The farmer

Dutch Renaissance painting

Icarus
4 To which mythic figure does the poem make reference?
Icarus

Arachne

Aphrodite

Zeus
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twenty one

Four

Seven

Fourteen
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?
Seascapes

Dreams

Scenes of peasant life

Greek mythology
7 What is the poem's central theme?
Perspective

Hubris

Visual art

War
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Love sonnet

Aubade

War epic
9 What is ekphrasis?
A wrriten work with religious overtones

A written description of a work of art

A depiction of a battle scene

A written description of a work of art
10 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Imagism

Confessional poetry

Transcendentalist

Postmodernism
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCB

It doesn't have one

ABBA

AABB
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"awake tingling"

"the wings' wax"

"the whole pageantry"

"off the coast"
13 When was the poem published?
1956

1967

1976

1960
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"the edge of the sea"

"sweating in the sun"

"a farmer was ploughing"

"a splash quite unnoticed"
15 When does the poem take place?
During winter

During spring

During summer

During fall
16 Which of the following was another famous work by Bruegel?
The Night Café

The Astronomer

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Garden of Earthly Delights
17 What is the climax of the poem?
Icarus's wings melting

Bruegel painting this piece

The farmer tilling his field

Icarus drowning
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Anaphora

Enjambment

Slant rhyme

Unconventional alignment
19 What is absent from the poem?
The sun

Punctuation

Pastoral imagery

Descriptions of labor
20 What does the farmer represent in the poem?
Fear of the ocean

The importance of poetry

The stories of everyday people

The difficulties of rural labor
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Perspective

Urban decay

Art

Everyday life
22 What is radical about both Williams's poem and Bruegel's painting?
Their incorporation of surreal imagery

Their use of blank space

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Somber and dark

Dramatic and intense

Lighthearted and wry

Elegant and cold
24 Which of the following words in the poem is onomatopoeic?
Fell

Drowning

Sea

Splash
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Daedalus

Hera

Ares

Aphrodite

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