1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Black Mountain Poets The French Symbolists The Beats 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 Gary Snyder T.S. Eliot Rimbaud 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Straightforward Decorous Harsh Dense 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Princeton Yale Dartmouth Harvard 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? Poems must include allusions to other poems Form must be an extension of content All content must be political Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Baudelaire Basho Dante Virgil 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Allen Ginsburg Michael McClure William Carlos Williams Jack Kerouac 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The decline of empires The different phases of life The seasons of nature Sports 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Free verse Limerick Haiku Sonnet 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 In domestic spaces In cities On battlefields 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Technology Materialism Science Human inventiveness 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? Columbia University Brooklyn College State University of New York-Buffalo New York University 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Kenneth Rexroth Ed Dorn Paul Blackburn Hilda Morley 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Chet Baker Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield Duke Ellington 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? Science Loss Love Meaning 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Aeneas Agamemnon Icarus Hades 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His son His nephew His grandmother 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"? The loss of a dog The collapse of her marriage Moving away from her family The death of her brother 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? After an arguement During a snowstorm Before a debate In the middle of a conversation 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Trying and failing to make a relationship work Lying Writer's block Trying and failing to define love 25 What year was Creeley born? 1928 1941 1926 1975
