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1 What type of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?
Kill the Nemean lion

Fight Apollo

Journey to the underworld

Catch and return Cerberus
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Hercules

Aeneas

Virgil

Robert Creeley
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?
Ulysses' return home

The destruction of Troy

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld

Achilles's battle with Hector
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?
Virgil

Homer

Dante

Shakespeare
6 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse
7 Which of the following is a main theme of the poem?
War

Heroism

History

Animal cruelty
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?
"Nothing comes from nothing"

"Therein lies the difficulty"

"That is the task, that is the labor"

"Deeds, not words"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?
Humanness

Determination

Valor

Strength
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?
Twelve

Ten

Two

Five
11 When was the poem published?
1950

1975

1965

1960
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?
The Beat Generation

The Black Mountain poets

The Imagists

The New York School
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?
By saying he has never read his work

By saying he is long dead

By saying his poetry is bad

By mocking Aeneas
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?
Hercules

His father

Achilles

Virgil
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Respectful but critical

Reverent

Thoughtful but harsh

Solemn
16 What is the meaning of the line "death also / can still propose the old labors" in the poem?
Mortality forces people into dull labor

Poets should write about death more often

Hercules died after completing his tasks

Mortality can push heroes into action
17 Who is Aeneas's guide into the underworld?
Sibyl

Charon

Dido

Cerberus
18 What is the genre of the poem?
Ekphrasis

Heroic poetry

Pastoral poetry

Sea shanty
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?
The destruction of Troy

Aeneas' death

The city of Rome

Hercules' capture of Cerberus
20 Why does Creeley single out Aeneas's trip to the underworld as the moment of "humanness" in the Aeneid?
Because it shows him being lost

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

Because it shows him being afraid

Because it shows him missing his father
21 Who is the guardian of the underworld?
The king of Mycanae

Apollo

The Nimean lion

Cerberus
22 Which of the following figures is NOT referenced in the poem?
Ulysses

Aeneas

Hercules

Sibyl
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?
To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

To mock himself

To place his own work in the same category as Virgil's

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition
24 What collection was the poem first published in?
The Island

For Love

5 Numbers

If You
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?
Dante

Emily Dickinson

Virgil

Charles Olson

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