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

Johannes Vermeer

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Rhyming couplets

Tercets

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

The farmer

Dutch Renaissance painting

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

Arachne

Aphrodite

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

Seven

Fourteen

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

Greek mythology

Dreams

Scenes of peasant life
7 What is the poem's central theme?
Visual art

War

Hubris

Perspective
8 What is the poem's genre?
War epic

Aubade

Love sonnet

Ekphrasis
9 What is ekphrasis?
A written description of a work of art

A wrriten work with religious overtones

A written description of a work of art

A depiction of a battle scene
10 What movement was William Carlos Williams associated with?
Confessional poetry

Imagism

Postmodernism

Transcendentalist
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB

ABCB

It doesn't have one

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

"off the coast"

"the wings' wax"

"the whole pageantry"
13 When was the poem published?
1967

1960

1976

1956
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"a farmer was ploughing"

"a splash quite unnoticed"

"the edge of the sea"

"sweating in the sun"
15 When does the poem take place?
During spring

During fall

During winter

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

The Night Café

Netherlandish Proverbs

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

Icarus's wings melting

The farmer tilling his field

Icarus drowning
18 What technique does Williams use often throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Unconventional alignment

Slant rhyme

Anaphora
19 What is absent from the poem?
The sun

Punctuation

Descriptions of labor

Pastoral imagery
20 What does the farmer represent in the poem?
Fear of the ocean

The stories of everyday people

The importance of poetry

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

Art

Perspective

Everyday life
22 What is radical about both Williams's poem and Bruegel's painting?
Their use of blank space

Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class

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

Somber and dark

Lighthearted and wry

Elegant and cold
24 Which of the following words in the poem is onomatopoeic?
Splash

Drowning

Sea

Fell
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Daedalus

Ares

Aphrodite

Hera

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