1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Black Mountain Poets The Beats The French Symbolists The Transcendentalists 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? For Love Later Words Life and Death 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Charles Olson T.S. Eliot Gary Snyder Rimbaud 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 Harvard Yale 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? Poems must include allusions to other poems All content must be political Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Form must be an extension of content 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Dante Baudelaire Basho Virgil 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Michael McClure Jack Kerouac William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsburg 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The decline of empires The seasons of nature Sports The different phases of life 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Sonnet Free verse Limerick Haiku 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 castles In cities In domestic spaces On battlefields 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Human inventiveness Technology Science Materialism 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? Paul Blackburn Kenneth Rexroth Hilda Morley Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Curtis Mayfield Chet Baker Duke Ellington Charlie Parker 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? Love Science Loss Meaning 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Hades Icarus Agamemnon Aeneas 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His nephew His son His wife His grandmother 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The collapse of her marriage Moving away from her family The loss of a dog The death of her brother 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? During a snowstorm In the middle of a conversation After an arguement Before a debate 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Trying and failing to define love Lying Writer's block Trying and failing to make a relationship work 25 What year was Creeley born? 1928 1926 1941 1975
