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

Hieronymus Bosch

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Tercets

Monostiches

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

Dutch Renaissance painting

The farmer

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

Arachne

Icarus

Aphrodite
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Fourteen

Four

Seven

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

Seascapes

Scenes of peasant life

Dreams
7 What is the poem's central theme?
Perspective

Visual art

War

Hubris
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 wrriten work with religious overtones

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

Postmodernism

Imagism

Confessional poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It doesn't have one

ABBA

ABCB

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

"the wings' wax"

"awake tingling"

"the whole pageantry"
13 When was the poem published?
1976

1956

1967

1960
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 fall

During summer

During winter

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

The Astronomer

The Night Café

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

Bruegel painting this piece

Icarus drowning

The farmer tilling his field
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Slant rhyme

Anaphora

Enjambment

Unconventional alignment
19 What is absent from the poem?
Pastoral imagery

Descriptions of labor

The sun

Punctuation
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?
Art

Everyday life

Urban decay

Perspective
22 What is radical about both Williams's poem and Bruegel's painting?
Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their use of blank space

Their incorporation of surreal imagery
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Dramatic and intense

Elegant and cold

Somber and dark

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

Drowning

Fell

Sea
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Ares

Aphrodite

Daedalus

Hera

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