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 ________"

silver

royalty

treasure

gold
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 sestina

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

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

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

Victorian

Romanticism

Gothic

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

love

death

poetry

war
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

an octave and a sestet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means

to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear of

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______

a poet

an astronomer

a king

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

lens

sight

knowledge

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

English

Greek

Latin

Italian
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

vision

discovery

love

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

Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

proud

meek

softly

bold
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

Canada

New England

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

Ben Jonson

John Milton
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______

a debt collector

a doctor

a ship captain

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

iambic pentameter

the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

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

ambitious

awestruck

imaginative

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

the sublime

Greek myth

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

silence

war

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

in a village

a mountain's peak

in the city

at sea

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