1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Transcendentalists The French Symbolists The Black Mountain Poets The Beats 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Words Life and Death For Love Later 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Charles Olson Gary Snyder T.S. Eliot Rimbaud 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Straightforward Dense Harsh Decorous 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? Form must be an extension of content All content must be political Poems must include allusions to other poems Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Basho Virgil Baudelaire Dante 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 Sports The different phases of life The decline of empires 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Haiku Limerick Sonnet Free verse 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Monostiches and couplets Quatrains and tercets Couplets and tercets Octaves and sextets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In cities In castles In domestic spaces On battlefields 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Technology Human inventiveness Science Materialism 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? New York University State University of New York-Buffalo Brooklyn College Columbia University 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 Chet Baker Curtis Mayfield Charlie Parker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Bollingen Ruth Lilly Nobel Pultzer 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Loss Science Love Meaning 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 grandmother His nephew 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Arthur Miller Lauren Bacall Marilyn Monroe 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The death of her brother The collapse of her marriage Moving away from her family The loss of a dog 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm Before a debate After an arguement 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Trying and failing to make a relationship work Writer's block Lying Trying and failing to define love 25 What year was Creeley born? 1928 1941 1975 1926
