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