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 _________
novels

poems

translations

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

a sonnet

a quatrain

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

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Romanticism

Elizabethean

Gothic

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
poetry

war

love

death
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

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

to be in debt to

in fear of

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
a king

an astronomer

an explorer

a poet
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
lens

sight

knowledge

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

Latin

Italian

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

discovery

vision

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

Charles Clowden Clarke

Fanny Brawne

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

bold

meek

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

Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson

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

Central America

the West Indies

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

William Wordsworth

Ben Jonson

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

a debt collector

a doctor

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

the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

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

complacent

ambitious

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

seeing

watching

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

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
English history

Greek myth

his literary friends

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____
celebration

defeat

war

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

in a village

in the city

a mountain's peak

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