I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

2005

1955

1991

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

The Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists

The Beat poets

The Futurists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

The speaker's friend

A big car

A CEO

The speaker
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?

"said"

"seized"

"sad"

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

"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

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

"you're"

"your"

"year"

"yore"
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

A big car

An airplane

Stars
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?

Talkative

Cheerful

Quiet

Irritable
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Relaxed and casual

Formal and serious

Colloquial and anxious

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

A stormy sea

The color red

A rain cloud

Darkness
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 inability to get home

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?

Disavow it in public

Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

Read it out loud
17 When is the climax of the poem?

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

In the first stanza

In the last stanza
18 How does the poem begin?

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

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?

Always bring a map

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car

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 unfinished

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

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

Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

Ed Dorn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?

Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization

Zeugma

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

It is underlined

It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?

Charles

Robert

We don't know

John
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?

Periods

Parentheses

Semicolons

Commas

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