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

Hieronymus Bosch

Vincent Van Gogh
2 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Monostiches

Rhyming couplets

Octaves

Tercets
3 What is the main subject matter of the poem?
The farmer

Dutch Renaissance painting

Springtime

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

Aphrodite

Zeus

Icarus
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Seven

Four

Fourteen

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

Dreams

Seascapes

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

War

Perspective

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

Ekphrasis

Aubade

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

A written description of a work of art

A depiction of a battle scene

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

Transcendentalist

Postmodernism

Confessional poetry
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB

It doesn't have one

ABBA

ABCB
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

1960

1967

1976
14 Which of the following lines contains understatement?
"the edge of the sea"

"a splash quite unnoticed"

"sweating in the sun"

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

During spring

During winter

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

The Astronomer

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Night Café
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The farmer tilling his field

Icarus drowning

Bruegel painting this piece

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

Anaphora

Enjambment

Slant rhyme
19 What is absent from the poem?
The sun

Punctuation

Pastoral imagery

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

Art

Perspective
22 What is radical about both Williams's poem and Bruegel's painting?
Their centering of ordinary classes of people

Their use of blank space

Their incorporation of surreal imagery

Their mocking depiction of the ruling class
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?
Drowning

Sea

Splash

Fell
25 Who gave Icarus his wings?
Daedalus

Hera

Ares

Aphrodite

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