Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quizzes

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quiz

1 What painter does Williams reference in the poem?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Hieronymus Bosch

Johannes Vermeer

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

Rhyming couplets

Tercets

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

Icarus

Dutch Renaissance painting

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

Zeus

Arachne

Aphrodite
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Fourteen

Seven

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

Scenes of peasant life

Dreams

Seascapes
7 What is the poem's central theme?
War

Hubris

Visual art

Perspective
8 What is the poem's genre?
Aubade

Ekphrasis

War epic

Love sonnet
9 What is ekphrasis?
A wrriten work with religious overtones

A written description of a work of art

A written description of a work of art

A depiction of a battle scene
10 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Transcendentalist

Confessional poetry

Postmodernism

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

ABCB

AABB

It doesn't have one
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"the whole pageantry"

"the wings' wax"

"off the coast"

"awake tingling"
13 When was the poem published?
1956

1976

1967

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 spring

During winter

During fall

During summer
16 Which of the following was another famous work by Bruegel?
The Astronomer

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Night Café

Netherlandish Proverbs
17 What is the climax of the poem?
Icarus's wings melting

The farmer tilling his field

Bruegel painting this piece

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

Unconventional alignment

Anaphora

Slant rhyme
19 What is absent from the poem?
The sun

Descriptions of labor

Pastoral imagery

Punctuation
20 What does the farmer represent in the poem?
The importance of poetry

The difficulties of rural labor

Fear of the ocean

The stories of everyday people
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Perspective

Urban decay

Everyday life

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

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

Their incorporation of surreal imagery
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Elegant and cold

Dramatic and intense

Lighthearted and wry

Somber and dark
24 Which of the following words in the poem is onomatopoeic?
Sea

Fell

Drowning

Splash
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Ares

Aphrodite

Daedalus

Hera

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