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 Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists

The Futurists

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

A CEO

The speaker's friend

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

In the desert

Near a forest

In a car
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"sad"

"said"

"sold"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"name, the darkness sur-"

"can we do against"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"
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?
Couplets

Tercets

Sextets

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?
Quiet

Talkative

Irritable

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

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
A rain cloud

A stormy sea

The color red

Darkness
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By purchasing a home

By investing in the stock market

By driving

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work

Read it out loud

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

In the third stanza

In the last stanza

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

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car

Always bring a map
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Paul Blackburn

Walt Whitman

Charles Olson
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Zeugma

Synecdoche

Unconventional capitalization

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

It appears on a line by itself

It is italicized

It is underlined
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
We don't know

Robert

John

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

Periods

Parentheses

Commas

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