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

treasure

royalty

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
poems

plays

novels

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

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Victorian

Gothic

Elizabethean

Romanticism
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

death

war

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

an octave and a sestet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in the service of

to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an explorer

a king

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

knowledge

sight

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

Greek

English

Latin
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
vision

discovery

imagination

love
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Fanny Brawne

Joseph Severn

Charles Clowden Clarke

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

softly

meek

proud
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?"
Canada

the West Indies

New England

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

John Milton

William Wordsworth

Ben Jonson
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a teacher

a debt collector

a ship captain

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

the rhyme scheme

the volta

the poem's length
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

hearing

watching

seeing
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
the sublime

English history

Greek myth

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
defeat

silence

celebration

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

at sea

in the city

a mountain's peak

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