1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Transcendentalists The Beats The French Symbolists The Black Mountain Poets 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Life and Death For Love Words Later 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Rimbaud Gary Snyder Charles Olson T.S. Eliot 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Decorous Straightforward Harsh 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? Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Form must be an extension of content All content must be political Poems must include allusions to other poems 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Virgil Dante Baudelaire Basho 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Jack Kerouac Michael McClure William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsburg 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The seasons of nature The decline of empires The different phases of life Sports 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Haiku Sonnet Limerick Free verse 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Couplets and tercets Octaves and sextets Quatrains and tercets Monostiches and couplets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In castles On battlefields 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? 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? Hilda Morley Paul Blackburn Ed Dorn Kenneth Rexroth 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Charlie Parker Duke Ellington Chet Baker Curtis Mayfield 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 Meaning Love Science 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Aeneas Agamemnon Hades Icarus 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His son His grandmother His nephew His wife 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Arthur Miller Marilyn Monroe Lauren Bacall 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? Moving away from her family The loss of a dog The death of her brother The collapse of her marriage 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? During a snowstorm Before a debate In the middle of a conversation After an arguement 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Lying Trying and failing to define love Writer's block Trying and failing to make a relationship work 25 What year was Creeley born? 1975 1941 1928 1926
