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 ________"
silver

royalty

treasure

gold
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
novels

poems

plays

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

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet

a sestina
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

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

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

Elizabethean

Victorian

Gothic
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
death

love

war

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
an octave and a sestet

fourteen blank verse lines

seven couplets

four quatrains and a couplet
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
in the service of

to be loyal to

in fear of

to be in debt to
9 Cortez is ______
a poet

an astronomer

an explorer

a king
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
knowledge

sight

lens

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

Greek

English

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

vision

discovery

love
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Charles Clowden Clarke

Joseph Severn

Fanny Brawne

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

proud

meek

bold
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?"
Canada

Central America

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

Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

John Milton
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a debt collector

a teacher

a ship captain

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

the volta

the rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
awestruck

imaginative

ambitious

complacent
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
watching

swimming

hearing

seeing
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Endymion

Hyperion
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
the sublime

Greek myth

his literary friends

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

defeat

war

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

in the city

a mountain's peak

at sea

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