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 _________
poems

plays

novels

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

a quatrain

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:"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"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 ______
love

war

death

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

four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear of

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an explorer

an astronomer

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

lens

knowledge

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

Latin

Greek

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

discovery

imagination

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

Joseph Severn

Charles Clowden Clarke

Fanny Brawne
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
proud

meek

softly

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

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

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

Central America

the West Indies

Canada
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 teacher

a ship captain

a debt collector

a doctor
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?
complacent

imaginative

awestruck

ambitious
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?
To Autumn

Endymion

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
his literary friends

Greek myth

the sublime

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
defeat

celebration

silence

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

at sea

in a village

a mountain's peak

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