I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

1991

1959

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

The Surrealists

The Beat poets

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

The speaker's friend

A CEO

The speaker
4 Where does the poem take place?
Near a forest

In the desert

By a lake

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

"said"

"seized"

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

"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"yore"

"your"

"year"

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

Sextets

Couplets

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

Stars

An airplane

The night sky
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

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

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

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
Darkness

A rain cloud

A stormy sea

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

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By purchasing a home

By driving

By joining a gym

By investing in the stock market
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work

Disavow it in public

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

In the second stanza

In the last stanza

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

In the middle of a conversation

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?
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 feel more immediate

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem unfinished
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

Synecdoche

Zeugma

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

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself

It is broken up between two lines
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
Charles

John

Robert

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

Semicolons

Periods

Parentheses

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