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

silver

gold

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

translations

plays

poems

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

a sestina

a quatrain

a sonnet

a series of heroic couplets
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

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

Gothic

Elizabethean

Victorian

Romanticism
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

war

poetry

love

death
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 fear of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______

a poet

an astronomer

an explorer

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

orbit

knowledge

lens

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

Greek

English

Italian

Latin
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

imagination

love

discovery

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

Charles Clowden Clarke

Fanny Brawne

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

meek

bold

softly

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

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

Percy Shelley
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"

Canada

New England

the West Indies

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

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

a teacher

a doctor

a debt collector

a ship captain
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the rhyme scheme

the volta

the poem's length

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

awestruck

complacent

imaginative

ambitious
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?

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion

To Autumn

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

his literary friends

English history

Greek myth

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

defeat

silence

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

a mountain's peak

at sea

in a village

in the city

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