The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The French Symbolists

The Transcendentalists

The Black Mountain Poets

The Beats
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Later

Words

For Love

Life and Death
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
T.S. Eliot

Charles Olson

Gary Snyder

Rimbaud
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Dense

Straightforward

Decorous

Harsh
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Dartmouth

Princeton

Harvard

Yale
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
All content must be political

Form must be an extension of content

Poems must include allusions to other poems

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Baudelaire

Virgil

Dante

Basho
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?
Allen Ginsburg

William Carlos Williams

Jack Kerouac

Michael McClure
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?
The different phases of life

The seasons of nature

The decline of empires

Sports
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Free verse

Haiku

Limerick

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

Quatrains and tercets

Monostiches and couplets

Couplets and tercets
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

Human inventiveness

Science

Technology
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?
State University of New York-Buffalo

Brooklyn College

Columbia University

New York University
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?
Paul Blackburn

Ed Dorn

Kenneth Rexroth

Hilda Morley
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Chet Baker

Charlie Parker

Duke Ellington

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

Nobel

Bollingen

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

Science

Meaning

Love
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

Marilyn Monroe

Arthur Miller

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

In the middle of a conversation

During a snowstorm

Before a debate
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Lying

Writer's block

Trying and failing to define love

Trying and failing to make a relationship work
25 What year was Creeley born?
1928

1926

1975

1941

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