1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Beats The French Symbolists The Black Mountain Poets The Transcendentalists 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Words For Love Life and Death Later 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Charles Olson Rimbaud T.S. Eliot Gary Snyder 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Dense Harsh Decorous Straightforward 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Princeton Harvard Yale Dartmouth 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? All content must be political Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Poems must include allusions to other poems Form must be an extension of content 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Dante Virgil Baudelaire Basho 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsburg Jack Kerouac Michael McClure 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The seasons of nature The different phases of life Sports The decline of empires 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Sonnet Haiku Limerick Free verse 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Monostiches and couplets Couplets and tercets Quatrains and tercets Octaves and sextets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In domestic spaces In cities On battlefields In castles 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Human inventiveness Science Technology Materialism 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? Columbia University Brooklyn College New York University State University of New York-Buffalo 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Kenneth Rexroth Hilda Morley Paul Blackburn Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Duke Ellington Chet Baker Curtis Mayfield Charlie Parker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Bollingen Nobel Ruth Lilly Pultzer 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Meaning Love Loss Science 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Icarus Hades Aeneas Agamemnon 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His son His grandmother His nephew 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Marilyn Monroe Lauren Bacall Arthur Miller 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The death of her brother Moving away from her family The collapse of her marriage The loss of a dog 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? After an arguement In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm Before a debate 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Writer's block Trying and failing to define love Lying Trying and failing to make a relationship work 25 What year was Creeley born? 1975 1941 1926 1928
