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

treasure

silver
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 sonnet

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

Romanticism

Victorian

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
death

poetry

love

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

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in the service of

to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear 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?
Greek

Italian

Latin

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

vision

imagination

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

Fanny Brawne

Percy Shelley

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

proud

bold

softly
15 Keats had probably read which poet's translation of Homer before encountering Chapman?
Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson

Percy Shelley

Alexander Pope
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
Canada

New England

Central America

the West Indies
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 debt collector

a teacher

a doctor
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the poem's length

iambic pentameter

the volta

the rhyme scheme
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?
hearing

seeing

watching

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

Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

the sublime

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
war

silence

defeat

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

at sea

a mountain's peak

in the city

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