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

royalty

silver

treasure
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

translations

poems

novels

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

a sestina

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain

a sonnet
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

Victorian

Romanticism

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

love

death

war

poetry
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 the service of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______

a king

an explorer

an astronomer

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

orbit

lens

sight

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

English

Latin

Italian

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

vision

discovery

love

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

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

bold

proud

softly

meek
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?"

Central America

New England

the West Indies

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

Ben Jonson

John Milton

William Wordsworth

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

a ship captain

a doctor

a debt collector

a teacher
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the poem's length

the rhyme scheme

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

hearing

watching

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

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

Greek myth

his literary friends

the sublime

English history
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

silence

defeat

war
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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