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

royalty

treasure

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

poems

novels

plays

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

a series of heroic couplets

a quatrain

a sestina

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

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

Victorian

Gothic

Elizabethean

Romanticism
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

love

death

poetry

war
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means

in the service of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______

a poet

an astronomer

a king

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

orbit

lens

knowledge

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

English

Latin

Italian

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?

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn

Fanny Brawne
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

softly

meek

bold

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

Percy Shelley

Ben Jonson

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"

Central America

Canada

the West Indies

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

John Milton

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

a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor

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

the poem's length

iambic pentameter

the rhyme scheme

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

ambitious

imaginative

complacent

awestruck
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

watching

seeing

swimming

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

Endymion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

the sublime

his literary friends

English history

Greek myth
24 The poem ends with _____

celebration

silence

war

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

a mountain's peak

at sea

in the city

in a village

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