I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

2005

1959

1991

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

The Futurists

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

The speaker's friend

A CEO

The speaker

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?

By a lake

Near a forest

In the desert

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

"said"

"seized"

"sad"

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

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"

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

"yore"

"your"

"you're"

"year"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

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

The night sky

Stars

An airplane

A big car
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?

Cheerful

Talkative

Irritable

Quiet
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?

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?

A rain cloud

Darkness

The color red

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's anxiety about driving

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 driving

By joining a gym

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

Read it out loud

Anthologize it

Disavow it in public

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

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

In the first stanza

In the last stanza
18 How does the poem begin?

In the middle of a conversation

During a road trip

At the height of an arguement

In the midst of a nightmare
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going

Never pay too much for a car
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem unfinished

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

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

Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

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 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?

Charles

We don't know

John

Robert
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?

Periods

Parentheses

Semicolons

Commas

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