I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

1991

1959

2005
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Futurists

The Beat poets

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

The speaker's friend

A CEO

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?
Near a forest

In the desert

In a car

By a lake
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"seized"

"sad"

"sold"

"said"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"name, the darkness sur-"

"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"year"

"your"

"yore"

"you're"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Sextets

Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains
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?
Irritable

Cheerful

Quiet

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

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bitter and brief

Relaxed and casual

Formal and serious

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

Darkness

A rain cloud

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

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 driving

By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

Disavow it in public
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the last stanza

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

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

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

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 seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem unfinished

They make it feel more immediate
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Walt Whitman

Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

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

Enjambment

Synecdoche

Zeugma
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

It is underlined

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

Robert

We don't know

Charles
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Commas

Semicolons

Periods

Parentheses

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