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 ________"
gold

treasure

royalty

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
novels

translations

poems

plays
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?
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

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

Gothic

Victorian

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
poetry

love

death

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

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
to be loyal to

in fear of

to be in debt to

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
a king

an explorer

a poet

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

orbit

lens

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

Latin

English

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
discovery

love

imagination

vision
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Fanny Brawne

Joseph Severn

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
bold

proud

meek

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

Ben Jonson

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
the West Indies

Central America

New England

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

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

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 poem's length

the volta

the rhyme scheme
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
imaginative

ambitious

complacent

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

watching

swimming

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

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

the sublime

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
celebration

silence

war

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

a mountain's peak

in a village

in the city

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