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 _________

translations

novels

poems

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

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

a sestina

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?

Romanticism

Gothic

Victorian

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

poetry

war

death

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

seven couplets

an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines
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 ______

a king

an astronomer

an explorer

a poet
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?

English

Italian

Greek

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?

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke
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?"

New England

the West Indies

Central America

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

Ben Jonson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

William Wordsworth
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______

a ship captain

a teacher

a debt collector

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

the poem's length

the volta

iambic pentameter

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

imaginative

complacent

ambitious

awestruck
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

swimming

watching

seeing

hearing
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

his literary friends

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

defeat

celebration

war

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

in the city

at sea

a mountain's peak

in a village

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