According to the speaker in “Musée des Beaux Arts,” while someone is “eating of opening a window or just walking,” (lines 4-5) someone else is

Waiting for the miraculous birth.

According to lines 5-8, old people are “passionately waiting for the miraculous birth,” but why do children “not specially want it to happen?”

The event would have no effect on them.

Skating on a pond is less important.

The Old Masters “were never wrong.”

The children must still “go on with their doggy life.”

Daedalus made wings for himself and his son in order to

escape from the island of Crete.

show that he was an ingenious artist.

Which of the following is the best summary of the story?

Daedalus and Icarus lived on an island named Crete. After Daedalus finished the maze, he and Icarus were trapped in the tower. Daedalus creates wings to escape while warning Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus ignores the warning and flies too close to the sun, melts his wings, and crashes into the sea.

Daedalus finds himself imprisoned on an island with his son, Icarus. Icarus flies too close to the sun and melts his wings.

King Minos has Daedalus build a labyrinth but changes his mind and imprisons Daedalus. Daedalus sees seagulls and decided to create wings to escape.

Daedalus finds himself imprisoned on an island along with his son, Icarus. in order to escape, Daedalus creates wings.

What aspect of the painting does the speaker of the poem consider a particularly important?

Everything in the scene faces away from Icarus.

The ship, a 16th-century caravel, does not unfurl its sail.

Icarus does not make a splash when he hits the water.

The dog is in an untidy spot and the horse is innocent.

What is the central image in Breughel's painting?

a man wearing a red shirt and plowing a field

the yellow sun setting on the deep blue sea

a shepherd and his brown dog tending twelve white sheep

Icarus's white legs disappearing into green water.

Most people depicted in Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

pay little attention to their animals.

believe that Icarus deserved to fall.

The speaker in the poem says that for the ploughman in Breughel's painting, Icarus's fall “was not an important failure” (line 17). What does this suggest about the Auden's view of how people respond to the suffering of others?

People evaluate suffering by how it affects them personally.

Failure is not an option when human suffering is involved.

People must never become too busy to respond to suffering.

People often allow suffering to interfere with their work.

According to the speaker, suffering and miracles are alike because both

occur in the midst of mundane events

can never attract attention to themselves.

elicit similar responses in people, dogs, and horses.

follow a course that leads to dreadful martyrdom

Which of the following quotes best reflects Auden's idea about human nature?

“how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster”

“Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky”

“On a pond at the edge of the wood: / They never forgot”

“disappearing into the green / Water; and the expensive delicate ship”

What is it that the Old Masters mentioned in the poem clearly understood?

the human position toward suffering

the subjects of many old paintings

the dreadful martyrdom of a dog's life

the suffering involved in miraculous birth

Musée des Beaux Arts Vs Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What poet wrote "Musee des Beaux Arts"?

Wallace Stevens

W. H. Auden

Aldous Huxley

Aubrey Beardsley

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a poem about a painting called?

electophrenetic

ekstatic

ekphrastic

phrenisis

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What artist painted "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"?

Vincent Van Gogh

Marcel Beauchamp

Paul Bremmer

Pieter Brueghel

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first line of the poem is an example of an inversion. What does that mean?

Interchangeable characters

Not grammatically correct

Sections are switched

No punctuation

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What king imprisoned Daedalus?

Oedipus

Xerxes

Minos

Mordred

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where is the museum in the title of the poem located?

Bulgaria

Bavaria

Brussels

Belgrade

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

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30 sec • 1 pt

Who are the "Old Masters"?

Forgotten poets

Famous painters

Ruthless kings

Expert sailors

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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Musée des Beaux Arts Vs Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

What poet wrote "Musee des Beaux Arts"?

What is a poem about a painting called?

What artist painted "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"?

The first line of the poem is an example of an inversion. What does that mean?

What king imprisoned Daedalus?

Where is the museum in the title of the poem located?

Who are the "Old Masters"?

According to your reading, the poem is about what?

What poet wrote "Musee des Beaux Arts"?

According to the speaker in “Musée des Beaux Arts,” while someone is “eating of opening a window or just walking,” (lines 4-5) someone else is

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