Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quizzes

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Quiz

1 What painter does Williams reference in the poem?
Hieronymus Bosch

Vincent Van Gogh

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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

Tercets

Rhyming couplets

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

The farmer

Icarus

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

Zeus

Icarus

Arachne
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Seven

Fourteen

Twenty one

Four
6 Bruegel was known for his depictions of what?
Seascapes

Dreams

Scenes of peasant life

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

War

Perspective

Hubris
8 What is the poem's genre?
Aubade

War epic

Ekphrasis

Love sonnet
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?
Transcendentalist

Postmodernism

Confessional poetry

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

It doesn't have one

AABB

ABBA
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?
1960

1967

1956

1976
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"sweating in the sun"

"a splash quite unnoticed"

"the edge of the sea"

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

During winter

During spring

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

Icarus drowning

The farmer tilling his field

Bruegel painting this piece
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Unconventional alignment

Enjambment

Slant rhyme

Anaphora
19 What is absent from the poem?
Punctuation

Pastoral imagery

The sun

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

Fear of the ocean

The stories of everyday people

The difficulties of rural labor
21 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Urban decay

Everyday life

Perspective

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

Their use of blank space

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their incorporation of surreal imagery
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Somber and dark

Elegant and cold

Dramatic and intense

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

Sea

Splash

Drowning
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Daedalus

Hera

Aphrodite

Ares

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