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

treasure

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
translations

plays

novels

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

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

poetry

death

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

seven couplets

an octave and a sestet

fourteen blank verse lines
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in fear of

to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

a king

an explorer

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

lens

knowledge

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

English

Italian

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

imagination

love

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

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

Charles Clowden Clarke
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
softly

proud

bold

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

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
Canada

the West Indies

Central America

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

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a debt collector

a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

the volta

iambic pentameter
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?
seeing

watching

hearing

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

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

English history

the sublime

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

celebration

war

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

in a village

in the city

at sea

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