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

silver

gold

royalty
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

translations

novels

poems

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

a series of heroic couplets

a sestina

a quatrain

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

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

Romanticism

Elizabethean

Victorian

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

poetry

death

war

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines

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

to be in debt to

in the service of

to be loyal to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______

a king

a poet

an explorer

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

lens

knowledge

orbit

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

Italian

Latin

English

Greek
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

Fanny Brawne

Percy Shelley

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

proud

softly

bold

meek
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?"

Canada

the West Indies

New England

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

William Wordsworth

John Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ben Jonson
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______

a doctor

a teacher

a ship captain

a debt collector
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

the rhyme scheme

the poem's length

iambic pentameter

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

ambitious

complacent

awestruck

imaginative
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

seeing

hearing

watching

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

Hyperion

Endymion

Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

Greek myth

his literary friends

English history

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

defeat

celebration

silence

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

at sea

in the city

a mountain's peak

in a village

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