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 ________"
treasure

gold

silver

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
plays

translations

novels

poems
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:"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Elizabethean

Romanticism

Victorian

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

war

poetry

death
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in fear of

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
an astronomer

a poet

an explorer

a king
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?
Italian

Latin

Greek

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

vision

love

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

Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne

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

bold

proud

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

Alexander Pope

Percy Shelley

Samuel Johnson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
the West Indies

New England

Canada

Central America
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 ship captain

a doctor

a teacher

a debt collector
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the volta

iambic pentameter

the poem's length

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

awestruck

ambitious

imaginative
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
swimming

hearing

watching

seeing
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

English history

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____
war

silence

defeat

celebration
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?
in a village

a mountain's peak

at sea

in the city

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