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

silver

treasure

gold
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________

translations

novels

plays

poems
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?

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

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

Gothic

Romanticism

Elizabethean

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______

love

war

death

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____

fourteen blank verse lines

an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means

in the service of

in fear of

to be loyal to

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______

an astronomer

a poet

a king

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

sight

knowledge

orbit

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

Latin

English

Greek

Italian
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?

love

imagination

vision

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

Fanny Brawne

Charles Clowden Clarke

Percy Shelley

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"

proud

meek

softly

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

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson

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

the West Indies

Canada

Central America

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______

a debt collector

a doctor

a ship captain

a teacher
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?

iambic pentameter

the rhyme scheme

the volta

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

complacent

ambitious

awestruck

imaginative
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?

watching

swimming

seeing

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

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes

Endymion

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration

the sublime

Greek myth

English history

his literary friends
24 The poem ends with _____

war

silence

defeat

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

in the city

a mountain's peak

in a village

at sea

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