Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quizzes

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quiz

1 What painter does Williams reference in the poem?
Vincent Van Gogh

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Hieronymus Bosch

Johannes Vermeer
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Rhyming couplets

Tercets

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

Icarus

Springtime

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

Icarus

Arachne

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

Fourteen

Seven

Four
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?
Scenes of peasant life

Seascapes

Greek mythology

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

Hubris

War

Visual art
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 written description of a work of art

A wrriten work with religious overtones
10 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Confessional poetry

Transcendentalist

Postmodernism

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

ABBA

It doesn't have one

AABB
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"awake tingling"

"the wings' wax"

"the whole pageantry"

"off the coast"
13 When was the poem published?
1956

1976

1967

1960
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"a splash quite unnoticed"

"sweating in the sun"

"the edge of the sea"

"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 Night Café

The Astronomer

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Netherlandish Proverbs
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?
Descriptions of labor

Punctuation

Pastoral imagery

The sun
20 What does the farmer represent in the poem?
The difficulties of rural labor

Fear of the ocean

The stories of everyday people

The importance of poetry
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Art

Everyday life

Perspective

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?
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

Sea

Fell
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Ares

Aphrodite

Hera

Daedalus

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