I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

1991

2005

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

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A CEO

The speaker

A big car

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
By a lake

In a car

In the desert

Near a forest
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"sad"

"seized"

"said"

"sold"
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?
"your"

"year"

"you're"

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
Stars

An airplane

The night sky

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

Irritable

Talkative

Quiet
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter
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?
A rain cloud

Darkness

The color red

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's inability to get home
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

Anthologize it

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

In the last stanza

In the first stanza

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

In the middle of a conversation

During a road trip

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 seem like it has typographical errors

They make it seem unfinished

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

Walt Whitman

Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson
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 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?
We don't know

John

Robert

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

Commas

Periods

Semicolons

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