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 ________"
royalty

gold

silver

treasure
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 series of heroic couplets

a quatrain

a sestina

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

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

"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?
Gothic

Victorian

Romanticism

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
poetry

war

love

death
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines

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

in fear of

to be in debt to

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
an astronomer

a poet

an explorer

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

knowledge

orbit

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

English

Latin

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

vision

discovery

imagination
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 ______"
meek

bold

softly

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

Ben Jonson

Samuel Johnson

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

New England

Central America

the West Indies
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

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

a debt collector

a teacher

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

the volta

the poem's length

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

ambitious

awestruck

complacent
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
hearing

seeing

watching

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

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

English history

the sublime

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
war

defeat

silence

celebration
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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