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

silver

gold
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

poems

translations

plays

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

a sestina

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain

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

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

Romanticism

Elizabethean

Gothic

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

death

war

love

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

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

to be loyal to

in the service of

in fear of

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______

a king

a poet

an explorer

an astronomer
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?

Italian

English

Greek

Latin
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

love

discovery

imagination

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

Fanny Brawne

Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

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?

Percy Shelley

Ben Jonson

Alexander Pope

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

Central America

New England

Canada

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

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

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

a ship captain

a doctor

a teacher

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

the poem's length

the rhyme scheme

the volta

iambic pentameter
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?

hearing

seeing

watching

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

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Endymion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

Greek myth

his literary friends

English history

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____

war

defeat

silence

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

in a village

at sea

in the city

a mountain's peak

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