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 _________
translations

plays

poems

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

a series of heroic couplets

a sestina

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?
Elizabethean

Romanticism

Gothic

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

love

death

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
four quatrains and a couplet

fourteen blank verse lines

seven couplets

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 astronomer

an explorer

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?
English

Greek

Latin

Italian
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

Charles Clowden Clarke

Fanny Brawne

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

meek

bold

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

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

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

Canada

New England

Central America
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 teacher

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

swimming

hearing

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

Endymion

To Autumn

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

celebration

silence

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

in a village

in the city

at sea

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