I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

1991

1955

2005
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Futurists

The Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists

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

The speaker

The speaker's friend

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

Near a forest

By a lake

In the desert
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"said"

"sad"

"seized"

"sold"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"
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?
Sextets

Couplets

Tercets

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

A big car

The night sky

An airplane
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Cheerful

Irritable

Quiet

Talkative
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief

Relaxed and casual

Formal and serious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
Darkness

The color red

A stormy sea

A rain cloud
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 investing in the stock market

By joining a gym

By purchasing a home
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Anthologize it

Read it out loud

Disavow it in public

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

In the last stanza

In the second stanza

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

During a road trip

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?
Always bring a map

Never pay too much for a car

Not take shortcuts

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?
Charles Olson

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn

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

Zeugma

Enjambment

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

It is italicized

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself
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

Periods

Semicolons

Commas

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