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

poems

translations

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?
"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?
Elizabethean

Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

love

poetry

death
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

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

in the service of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an astronomer

a king

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

knowledge

orbit

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

Greek

Italian

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

discovery

vision

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

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
softly

proud

meek

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

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

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

Canada

Central America

the West Indies
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
John Milton

William Wordsworth

Ben Jonson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor

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

the rhyme scheme

the volta

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

imaginative

complacent

awestruck
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
watching

seeing

swimming

hearing
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
To Autumn

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

the sublime

his literary friends

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

defeat

war

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

a mountain's peak

in a village

at sea

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