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 Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets

The Futurists

The Surrealists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

The speaker

A CEO

The speaker's friend

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?

In the desert

Near a forest

By a lake

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

"sold"

"said"

"sad"

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

"name, the darkness sur-"

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"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?

Tercets

Sextets

Couplets

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

The night sky

Stars

An airplane

A big car
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?

Quiet

Talkative

Cheerful

Irritable
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?

Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual
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 anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

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

By driving

By purchasing a home

By investing in the stock market

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?

Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

Disavow it in public

Anthologize it
17 When is the climax of the poem?

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the last stanza
18 How does the poem begin?

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip

In the midst of a nightmare

In the middle of a conversation
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?

Never pay too much for a car

Not take shortcuts

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 feel more immediate

They make it seem unfinished

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem like it has typographical errors
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn

Walt Whitman

Charles Olson
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?

Zeugma

Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization

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

It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself
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?

Parentheses

Semicolons

Periods

Commas

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