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

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Johannes Vermeer

Vincent Van Gogh
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Rhyming couplets

Tercets

Monostiches

Octaves
3 What is the main subject matter of the poem?
Icarus

Dutch Renaissance painting

The farmer

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

Zeus

Arachne

Aphrodite
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Fourteen

Twenty one
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?
Seascapes

Scenes of peasant life

Dreams

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

Perspective

Hubris

War
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Love sonnet

War epic

Aubade
9 What is ekphrasis?
A depiction of a battle scene

A written description of a work of art

A written description of a work of art

A wrriten work with religious overtones
10 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Imagism

Postmodernism

Confessional poetry

Transcendentalist
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

AABB

It doesn't have one

ABCB
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"off the coast"

"awake tingling"

"the wings' wax"

"the whole pageantry"
13 When was the poem published?
1960

1956

1976

1967
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"a farmer was ploughing"

"the edge of the sea"

"sweating in the sun"

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

During summer

During spring

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

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Astronomer
17 What is the climax of the poem?
Bruegel painting this piece

Icarus drowning

The farmer tilling his field

Icarus's wings melting
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Unconventional alignment

Anaphora

Slant rhyme

Enjambment
19 What is absent from the poem?
The sun

Punctuation

Descriptions of labor

Pastoral imagery
20 What does the farmer represent in the poem?
The stories of everyday people

The difficulties of rural labor

The importance of poetry

Fear of the ocean
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Perspective

Everyday life

Urban decay

Art
22 What is radical about both Williams's poem and Bruegel's painting?
Their use of blank space

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their incorporation of surreal imagery
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Lighthearted and wry

Somber and dark

Dramatic and intense

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

Fell

Sea

Splash
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Hera

Aphrodite

Ares

Daedalus

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