I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1991

1955

1959
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Surrealists

The Futurists

The Beat poets

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

A big car

The speaker

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
In the desert

In a car

Near a forest

By a lake
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"said"

"sold"

"sad"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"year"

"you're"

"yore"

"your"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains

Sextets
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 hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Formal and serious

Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief

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

Darkness

A stormy sea

A rain cloud
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 investing in the stock market

By driving

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

Read it out loud

Disavow it in public

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

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

In the first 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

Watch where he's going

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 more difficult to understand

They make it feel more immediate

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it seem unfinished
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

Ed Dorn

Walt Whitman
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 appears on a line by itself

It is underlined

It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
We don't know

Charles

Robert

John
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Periods

Commas

Semicolons

Parentheses

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