I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

2005

1991

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

The Futurists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A big car

The speaker

A CEO

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
In the desert

By a lake

Near a forest

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

"said"

"sold"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

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

"yore"

"you're"

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

Tercets

Quatrains

Couplets
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?
Irritable

Talkative

Quiet

Cheerful
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Free verse

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
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?
Darkness

A rain cloud

A stormy sea

The color red
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

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 joining a gym

By driving

By purchasing a home

By investing in the stock market
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 third stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the last stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip

In the middle of a conversation
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going

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 seem unfinished

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Zeugma

Synecdoche

Enjambment

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

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

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

Robert

John

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

Commas

Periods

Parentheses

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