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