1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Black Mountain Poets The French Symbolists The Transcendentalists The Beats 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Life and Death Words Later For Love 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Rimbaud T.S. Eliot Charles Olson Gary Snyder 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Dense Straightforward Decorous Harsh 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Yale Princeton 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"? Dante Basho Baudelaire Virgil 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 decline of empires Sports The seasons of nature 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? Monostiches and couplets Quatrains and tercets Couplets and tercets Octaves and sextets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In cities On battlefields In domestic spaces In castles 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? Brooklyn College New York University Columbia University State University of New York-Buffalo 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? Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield Chet Baker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Bollingen Ruth Lilly Nobel Pultzer 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Meaning Loss Science 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 wife His grandmother His son His nephew 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Marilyn Monroe Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart Arthur Miller 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The collapse of her marriage The death of her brother The loss of a dog Moving away from her family 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? Before a debate In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm After an arguement 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Trying and failing to make a relationship work Trying and failing to define love Writer's block Lying 25 What year was Creeley born? 1928 1975 1926 1941
