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

gold

treasure

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

novels

plays

poems

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

a sonnet

a sestina

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?

Elizabethean

Victorian

Romanticism

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

death

war

poetry

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means

in the service of

in fear of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______

an astronomer

a poet

a king

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

knowledge

lens

sight

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

Italian

Latin

English

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

love

imagination

vision

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

Joseph Severn

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

bold

meek

proud

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

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

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

New England

the West Indies

Canada

Central America
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?

William Wordsworth

Ben Jonson

John Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______

a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor

a debt collector
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the volta

iambic pentameter

the rhyme scheme

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

imaginative

awestruck

complacent

ambitious
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

seeing

hearing

swimming

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

Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Hyperion

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

English history

Greek myth

his literary friends

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

war

silence

defeat
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?

at sea

a mountain's peak

in the city

in a village

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