The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Beats

The French Symbolists

The Transcendentalists

The Black Mountain Poets
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Words

For Love

Later

Life and Death
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
Rimbaud

Charles Olson

T.S. Eliot

Gary Snyder
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Straightforward

Harsh

Decorous

Dense
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Yale

Princeton

Harvard

Dartmouth
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
Form must be an extension of content

Poems must include allusions to other poems

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in

All content must be political
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Baudelaire

Dante

Virgil

Basho
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?
Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsburg

Michael McClure

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?
Free verse

Limerick

Haiku

Sonnet
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?
Octaves and sextets

Couplets and tercets

Quatrains and tercets

Monostiches and couplets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In cities

In castles

On battlefields

In domestic spaces
13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"?
Materialism

Science

Technology

Human inventiveness
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?
Columbia University

State University of New York-Buffalo

New York University

Brooklyn College
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?
Ed Dorn

Hilda Morley

Kenneth Rexroth

Paul Blackburn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Chet Baker

Duke Ellington

Charlie Parker

Curtis Mayfield
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Nobel

Pultzer

Ruth Lilly

Bollingen
18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work?
Science

Meaning

Loss

Love
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 nephew

His grandmother

His son
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 collapse of her marriage

The death of her brother

Moving away from her family

The loss of a dog
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?
During a snowstorm

After an arguement

In the middle of a conversation

Before a debate
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Lying

Trying and failing to define love

Writer's block
25 What year was Creeley born?
1975

1941

1926

1928

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