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 ________"
treasure

royalty

gold

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
translations

poems

plays

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

a quatrain

a sonnet

a series of heroic couplets
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Gothic

Romanticism

Elizabethean

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
poetry

love

death

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

four quatrains and a couplet

an octave and a sestet

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

in fear of

to be loyal to

in the service 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?
Latin

English

Italian

Greek
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

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
bold

meek

proud

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

Ben Jonson

Percy Shelley

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

New England

Central America

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

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

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

a debt collector

a doctor

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

iambic pentameter

the poem's length

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

awestruck

imaginative

complacent
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
swimming

hearing

seeing

watching
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
the sublime

Greek myth

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

celebration

war

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

in the city

at sea

in a village

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