On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Quizzes

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Quiz

1 "Much have I travell'd in the realms of ________"
silver

treasure

gold

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
novels

poems

plays

translations
3 "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" is what kind of poem?
a series of heroic couplets

a sestina

a sonnet

a quatrain
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Elizabethean

Gothic

Victorian

Romanticism
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

poetry

love

death
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
seven couplets

an octave and a sestet

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
to be loyal to

in the service of

in fear of

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______
a king

a poet

an astronomer

an explorer
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
lens

knowledge

sight

orbit
11 Homer's epics were originally composed in what language?
Greek

Latin

English

Italian
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
imagination

vision

love

discovery
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
bold

meek

proud

softly
15 Keats had probably read which poet's translation of Homer before encountering Chapman?
Ben Jonson

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Percy Shelley
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
New England

the West Indies

Central America

Canada
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a ship captain

a teacher

a debt collector

a doctor
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the volta

the rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter

the poem's length
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
complacent

awestruck

imaginative

ambitious
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
swimming

watching

seeing

hearing
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
Hyperion

Endymion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
the sublime

English history

his literary friends

Greek myth
24 The poem ends with _____
celebration

silence

defeat

war
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?
in the city

in a village

a mountain's peak

at sea

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