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1 When was the poem published?

1959

1991

2005

1955
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?

The Surrealists

The Beat poets

The Black Mountain 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 a car

Near a forest

By a lake

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

"sad"

"said"

"seized"

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

"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

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

"year"

"your"

"yore"

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

Sextets

Tercets

Couplets

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

Stars

A big car

An airplane

The night sky
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?

Cheerful

Irritable

Talkative

Quiet
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

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

Colloquial and anxious

Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

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

The color red

A rain cloud

Darkness

A stormy sea
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 purchasing a home

By joining a gym

By driving

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

Anthologize it

Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

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

In the last stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the third stanza
18 How does the poem begin?

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?

Never pay too much for a car

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going
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 seem unfinished

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Charles Olson

Ed Dorn

Walt Whitman

Paul Blackburn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?

Zeugma

Enjambment

Synecdoche

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

It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself

It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?

Robert

John

We don't know

Charles
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?

Commas

Periods

Semicolons

Parentheses

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