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