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

gold

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
novels

plays

poems

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

a quatrain

a sestina

a sonnet
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?
Elizabethean

Victorian

Romanticism

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
poetry

death

war

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
fourteen blank verse lines

seven couplets

four quatrains and a couplet

an octave and a sestet
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 king

an explorer

an astronomer

a poet
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
lens

sight

orbit

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

Italian

Latin

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

imagination

discovery

vision
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 ______"
bold

meek

softly

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

Samuel Johnson

Percy Shelley

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

Canada

New England

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

William Wordsworth

John Milton

Ben Jonson
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?
the rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter

the volta

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

ambitious

complacent

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

hearing

seeing

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

To Autumn

Endymion

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
the sublime

Greek myth

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
war

silence

celebration

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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