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 ________"
royalty

gold

treasure

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
plays

poems

translations

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

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Romanticism

Victorian

Elizabethean

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
war

death

poetry

love
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines

four quatrains and a couplet

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

in fear of

in the service of

to be loyal to
9 Cortez is ______
an explorer

an astronomer

a king

a poet
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
orbit

knowledge

sight

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

Latin

Italian

English
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
imagination

discovery

vision

love
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Percy Shelley

Fanny Brawne

Joseph Severn

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

meek

bold

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

Percy Shelley

Samuel Johnson

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

New England

the West Indies

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 teacher

a doctor

a debt collector

a ship captain
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
the poem's length

the volta

iambic pentameter

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?
hearing

swimming

seeing

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

Hyperion

To Autumn

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
his literary friends

Greek myth

the sublime

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

war

celebration

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

a mountain's peak

in a village

in the city

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