Question

Read the selection in your Student Edition and choose the best answer to each question.

Icarus’s Flight
by Stephen Dobyns

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Question
Which statement best describes the message of the poem?

Responses

Icarus flew too far for no good reason.
Icarus flew too far for no good reason.

Icarus learned something by flying too far.
Icarus learned something by flying too far.

Icarus had a habit of flying too far.
Icarus had a habit of flying too far.

Icarus was pushed into flying too far.
Icarus was pushed into flying too far.

Answer 1

Icarus learned something by flying too far.

Explanation: The poem treats his flight as a risky experiment that teaches him (and readers) about limits and consequences, rather than as mindless recklessness, a repeated habit, or something forced on him.