I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed May 31, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1991

2005

1959

1955
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?

The Futurists

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

The speaker's friend

The speaker

A big car

A CEO
4 Where does the poem take place?

In a car

In the desert

Near a forest

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

"seized"

"sad"

"said"

"sold"
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?

"you're"

"your"

"yore"

"year"
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

The night sky

Stars

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

Cheerful

Talkative

Quiet

Irritable
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Colloquial and anxious

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual

Bitter and brief
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?

The color red

A stormy sea

Darkness

A rain cloud
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's inability to get home

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

By driving

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym

By investing in the stock market
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?

Anthologize it

Disavow it in public

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 last stanza

In the third stanza

In the second 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?

Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car

Always bring a map
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

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

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

Unconventional capitalization

Zeugma

Synecdoche

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

It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

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

Robert

We don't know

Charles

John
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?

Periods

Semicolons

Commas

Parentheses

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