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 ________"

silver

treasure

royalty

gold
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 sonnet

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain

a sestina
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

Romanticism

Victorian

Elizabethean

Gothic
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

fourteen blank verse lines

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

in the service of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______

a poet

a king

an explorer

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

knowledge

sight

orbit

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

Greek

Latin

English

Italian
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

vision

discovery

imagination

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

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

Charles Clowden Clarke

Fanny Brawne
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

softly

meek

bold

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

Percy Shelley

Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson

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

Central America

New England

the West Indies

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

Ben Jonson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

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

a doctor

a debt collector

a ship captain

a teacher
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the volta

the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

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

imaginative

awestruck

ambitious

complacent
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

watching

hearing

swimming

seeing
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

English history

his literary friends

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

silence

defeat

war

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

in the city

at sea

a mountain's peak

in a village

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