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 Futurists

The Surrealists

The Beat poets

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

A big car

The speaker's friend

A CEO

The speaker
4 Where does the poem take place?

Near a forest

In the desert

By a lake

In a car
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?

"said"

"seized"

"sold"

"sad"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"

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

"yore"

"you're"

"year"

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

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets

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

An airplane

Stars

A big car

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

Irritable

Quiet

Talkative

Cheerful
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Dactylic pentameter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?

A stormy sea

The color red

A rain cloud

Darkness
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 anxiety about driving

The speaker's dislike of his friend
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?

By joining a gym

By driving

By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?

Read it out loud

Anthologize it

Disavow it in public

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

In the third stanza

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

In the last 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?

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it feel more immediate

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

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

Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

Walt Whitman

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

Unconventional capitalization

Enjambment

Zeugma

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

It is broken up between two lines

It appears on a line by itself

It is underlined

It is italicized
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?

Robert

Charles

John

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

Periods

Parentheses

Commas

Semicolons

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