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

silver

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
poems

novels

plays

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

a sestina

a quatrain

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

Gothic

Elizabethean

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

death

love

poetry
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
in the service of

in fear of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______
an explorer

an astronomer

a king

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

sight

lens

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

Greek

Italian

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

imagination

vision

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

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

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?
Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

Percy Shelley

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

the West Indies

Canada

New England
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 debt collector

a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor
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?
complacent

imaginative

ambitious

awestruck
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?
To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
the sublime

Greek myth

his literary friends

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
war

silence

celebration

defeat
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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