Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quizzes

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quiz

1 What painter does Williams reference in the poem?

Johannes Vermeer

Vincent Van Gogh

Hieronymus Bosch

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Octaves

Tercets

Rhyming couplets

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

Icarus

The farmer

Springtime

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

Zeus

Aphrodite

Arachne

Icarus
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Seven

Twenty one

Fourteen
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?

Seascapes

Scenes of peasant life

Greek mythology

Dreams
7 What is the poem's central theme?

Visual art

Perspective

Hubris

War
8 What is the poem's genre?

Love sonnet

War epic

Ekphrasis

Aubade
9 What is ekphrasis?

A written description of a work of art

A wrriten work with religious overtones

A depiction of a battle scene

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?

It doesn't have one

AABB

ABCB

ABBA
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"the wings' wax"

"the whole pageantry"

"awake tingling"

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

1976

1967

1960

1956
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?

"a splash quite unnoticed"

"the edge of the sea"

"sweating in the sun"

"a farmer was ploughing"
15 When does the poem take place?

During spring

During fall

During summer

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

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Night Café

The Garden of Earthly Delights

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?

Slant rhyme

Anaphora

Enjambment

Unconventional alignment
19 What is absent from the poem?

Descriptions of labor

Pastoral imagery

Punctuation

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

Art

Everyday life

Urban decay
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?

Somber and dark

Dramatic and intense

Elegant and cold

Lighthearted and wry
24 Which of the following words in the poem is onomatopoeic?

Splash

Drowning

Sea

Fell
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?

Ares

Hera

Daedalus

Aphrodite

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