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

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Vincent Van Gogh

Hieronymus Bosch
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Tercets

Rhyming couplets

Monostiches

Octaves
3 What is the main subject matter of the poem?
Dutch Renaissance painting

Springtime

The farmer

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

Zeus

Arachne

Icarus
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Fourteen

Seven

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

Scenes of peasant life

Seascapes

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

Perspective

Hubris

Visual art
8 What is the poem's genre?
Love sonnet

Ekphrasis

Aubade

War epic
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?
Postmodernism

Transcendentalist

Confessional poetry

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

It doesn't have one

ABCB

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

"awake tingling"

"off the coast"

"the whole pageantry"
13 When was the poem published?
1956

1960

1967

1976
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"a farmer was ploughing"

"sweating in the sun"

"a splash quite unnoticed"

"the edge of the sea"
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 Astronomer

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Garden of Earthly Delights

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

The farmer tilling his field

Icarus drowning

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

Enjambment

Unconventional alignment

Slant rhyme
19 What is absent from the poem?
Descriptions of labor

Punctuation

The sun

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

Fear of the ocean

The difficulties of rural labor

The stories of everyday people
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 centering of ordinary classes of people

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

Their use of blank space

Their incorporation of surreal imagery
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

Sea

Drowning

Fell
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Hera

Daedalus

Ares

Aphrodite

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