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

treasure

silver

gold
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 series of heroic couplets

a sonnet

a quatrain
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"

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Gothic

Elizabethean

Romanticism

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
death

love

poetry

war
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
four quatrains and a couplet

an octave and a sestet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in the service of

in fear of

to be in debt to

to be loyal to
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an astronomer

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?
Latin

English

Greek

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

imagination

love

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

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

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

proud

meek

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

Percy Shelley

Ben Jonson

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

the West Indies

New England

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

John Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

a teacher

a ship captain

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

the volta

the poem's length

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

awestruck

imaginative

ambitious
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
hearing

seeing

swimming

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

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
his literary friends

the sublime

Greek myth

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
war

celebration

defeat

silence
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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