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 ________"

treasure

royalty

silver

gold
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

novels

plays

translations

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

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet

a sestina

a quatrain
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"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

Victorian

Gothic

Romanticism

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

war

death

poetry

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

an octave and a sestet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines

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

in fear of

to be in debt to

in the service of

to be loyal to
9 Cortez is ______

an astronomer

an explorer

a poet

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

lens

sight

orbit

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

Latin

Italian

English

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

discovery

vision

love

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

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

softly

meek

bold

proud
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?"

Central America

Canada

New England

the West Indies
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 doctor

a teacher

a debt collector

a ship captain
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the poem's length

the rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter

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

awestruck

ambitious

complacent

imaginative
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

watching

swimming

hearing

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

Hyperion

To Autumn

Endymion

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

English history

the sublime

his literary friends

Greek myth
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

silence

war

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

at sea

in the city

in a village

a mountain's peak

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