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

gold

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
plays

novels

poems

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

a sestina

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

Victorian

Romanticism

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

love

death

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

four quatrains and a couplet

an octave and a sestet

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
sight

lens

knowledge

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

Greek

Latin

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

discovery

imagination

vision
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 ______"
proud

bold

meek

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

Percy Shelley

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson
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?
William Wordsworth

Ben Jonson

John Milton

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

a teacher

a debt collector

a doctor
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

imaginative

awestruck

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

swimming

hearing

watching
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Endymion

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
English history

his literary friends

the sublime

Greek myth
24 The poem ends with _____
celebration

silence

war

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

in a village

a mountain's peak

in the city

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