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 ________"
gold

silver

treasure

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
plays

novels

poems

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

a quatrain

a sonnet

a sestina
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?
Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

war

death

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

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

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

in fear of

in the service of

to be loyal to
9 Cortez is ______
a king

a poet

an astronomer

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

orbit

sight

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

Latin

Italian

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
discovery

imagination

love

vision
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Joseph Severn

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
bold

proud

softly

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

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

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

the West Indies

Canada

New England
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
John Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ben Jonson

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

a ship captain

a doctor

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

the poem's length

the volta

the rhyme scheme
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
imaginative

complacent

awestruck

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

seeing

swimming

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

Hyperion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

the sublime

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
war

celebration

defeat

silence
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?
a mountain's peak

in the city

at sea

in a village

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