I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

2005

1991

1959
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets

The Futurists

The Surrealists
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?
By a lake

In a car

In the desert

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

"seized"

"said"

"sad"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"can we do against"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"because I am / always talking,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"your"

"yore"

"year"

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

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
A big car

An airplane

The night sky

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

Quiet

Talkative

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

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse
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

A rain cloud

Darkness

The color red
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

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 investing in the stock market

By driving

By joining a gym

By purchasing a home
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

Read it out loud

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

In the last stanza

In the second stanza

In the third 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

Walt Whitman

Paul Blackburn

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

Zeugma

Synecdoche

Unconventional capitalization
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines

It appears on a line by itself

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

John

Charles

We don't know
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Parentheses

Semicolons

Commas

Periods

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