I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1959

1955

1991
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists

The Beat poets

The Surrealists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

A CEO

A big car

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
Near a forest

By a lake

In a car

In the desert
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"said"

"sold"

"sad"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"can we do against"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"year"

"you're"

"your"

"yore"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Sextets

Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
A big car

The night sky

Stars

An airplane
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Talkative

Cheerful

Quiet

Irritable
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual

Bitter and brief

Formal and serious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
The color red

A rain cloud

Darkness

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By driving

By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Read it out loud

Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the third stanza

In the last stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
At the height of an arguement

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

During a road trip
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Always bring a map

Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

They make it seem unfinished
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

Ed Dorn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Zeugma

Enjambment

Synecdoche
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself

It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
John

Robert

Charles

We don't know
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Semicolons

Parentheses

Commas

Periods

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