1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Black Mountain Poets The French Symbolists The Transcendentalists The Beats 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? T.S. Eliot Charles Olson Rimbaud Gary Snyder 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Decorous Straightforward Harsh Dense 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Princeton Dartmouth Yale Harvard 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"? Baudelaire Dante Basho Virgil 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Michael McClure Allen Ginsburg Jack Kerouac William Carlos Williams 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The different phases of life Sports The seasons of nature 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? Quatrains and tercets Monostiches and couplets Octaves and sextets Couplets and tercets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? On battlefields In castles In domestic spaces In cities 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Materialism Human inventiveness Technology Science 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? Brooklyn College Columbia University State University of New York-Buffalo New York University 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Ed Dorn Hilda Morley Paul Blackburn Kenneth Rexroth 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Chet Baker Duke Ellington Curtis Mayfield Charlie Parker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Ruth Lilly Nobel Pultzer Bollingen 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Loss Love Science Meaning 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Aeneas Hades Agamemnon Icarus 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His grandmother His nephew His son 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? Moving away from her family The death of her brother The loss of a dog The collapse of her marriage 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? Before a debate In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm 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? 1975 1941 1926 1928
