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

royalty

treasure

gold
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

plays

novels

translations

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

a sonnet

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

Elizabethean

Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

war

death

poetry

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

to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______

an astronomer

an explorer

a poet

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

knowledge

lens

sight

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

Greek

English

Latin

Italian
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

vision

love

discovery

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

Joseph Severn

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne
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

Central America

New England

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

Ben Jonson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

William Wordsworth
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?

iambic pentameter

the poem's length

the volta

the rhyme scheme
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?

seeing

hearing

swimming

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

Endymion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

the sublime

Greek myth

his literary friends

English history
24 The poem ends with _____

war

silence

celebration

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

in a village

in the city

at sea

a mountain's peak

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