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 _________
plays

novels

translations

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

a sestina

a series of heroic couplets

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

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"

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

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

Victorian

Romanticism

Elizabethean
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

poetry

death

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

four quatrains and a couplet

an octave and a sestet

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

to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear of
9 Cortez is ______
an astronomer

a king

an explorer

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

knowledge

orbit

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

English

Italian

Greek
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
discovery

vision

imagination

love
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 ______"
softly

proud

meek

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

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
Canada

the West Indies

New England

Central America
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 ship captain

a teacher

a debt collector

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

the rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter

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

awestruck

imaginative

ambitious
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
seeing

watching

swimming

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

Eve of St. Agnes

Hyperion

To Autumn
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

English history

his literary friends

the sublime
24 The poem ends with _____
war

celebration

silence

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

in a village

at sea

a mountain's peak

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