I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1991

1955

1959
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Beat poets

The Futurists

The Black Mountain poets

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

The speaker's friend

A big car

A CEO
4 Where does the poem take place?
By a lake

In the desert

In a car

Near a forest
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"sold"

"seized"

"said"

"sad"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"you're"

"yore"

"year"

"your"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains

Sextets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
An airplane

A big car

Stars

The night sky
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Quiet

Cheerful

Talkative

Irritable
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Relaxed and casual

Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Formal and serious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
Darkness

The color red

A rain cloud

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

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By purchasing a home

By joining a gym

By investing in the stock market

By driving
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work

Read it out loud
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the last stanza

In the second stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
In the middle of a conversation

During a road trip

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Never pay too much for a car

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

Walt Whitman
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Synecdoche

Enjambment

Zeugma
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
John

We don't know

Charles

Robert
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Periods

Semicolons

Commas

Parentheses

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