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?
Rhyming couplets

Tercets

Octaves

Monostiches
3 What is the main subject matter of the poem?
The farmer

Springtime

Icarus

Dutch Renaissance painting
4 To which mythic figure does the poem make reference?
Arachne

Icarus

Aphrodite

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

Fourteen

Four

Seven
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?
Dreams

Seascapes

Greek mythology

Scenes of peasant life
7 What is the poem's central theme?
Hubris

War

Visual art

Perspective
8 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrasis

Aubade

Love sonnet

War epic
9 What is ekphrasis?
A written description of a work of art

A depiction of a battle scene

A wrriten work with religious overtones

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

Transcendentalist

Postmodernism

Confessional poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB

ABCB

It doesn't have one

ABBA
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"the wings' wax"

"off the coast"

"the whole pageantry"

"awake tingling"
13 When was the poem published?
1960

1956

1976

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

"sweating in the sun"

"the edge of the sea"

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

During winter

During summer

During fall
16 Which of the following was another famous work by Bruegel?
The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Night Café

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Astronomer
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The farmer tilling his field

Icarus's wings melting

Icarus drowning

Bruegel painting this piece
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Anaphora

Slant rhyme

Unconventional alignment
19 What is absent from the poem?
Punctuation

Pastoral imagery

Descriptions of labor

The sun
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

Urban decay

Art

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

Their incorporation of surreal imagery

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

Their centering of ordinary classes of people
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Lighthearted and wry

Dramatic and intense

Somber and dark

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

Fell

Drowning

Sea
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Aphrodite

Daedalus

Hera

Ares

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