I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

1959

2005

1991
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Futurists

The Beat poets

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker's friend

A big car

The speaker

A CEO
4 Where does the poem take place?
In a car

By a lake

In the desert

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

"said"

"seized"

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

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"yore"

"year"

"your"

"you're"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets

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

An airplane

Stars

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

Irritable

Talkative

Cheerful
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

Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief

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

A rain cloud

A stormy sea

Darkness
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 investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym

By driving
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Read it out loud

Anthologize it

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

In the first stanza

In the last stanza

In the third stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
During a road trip

In the midst of a nightmare

In the middle of a conversation

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 unfinished

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

Ed Dorn

Charles Olson

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

Unconventional capitalization

Synecdoche

Zeugma
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is broken up between two lines

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself

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

We don't know

John

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

Periods

Parentheses

Semicolons

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