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? For Love Words Later Life and Death 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Charles Olson T.S. Eliot Rimbaud Gary Snyder 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Harsh Straightforward Decorous Dense 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Harvard Princeton Dartmouth Yale 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? Poems must include allusions to other poems Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Form must be an extension of content All content must be political 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Baudelaire Dante Virgil Basho 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? William Carlos Williams Michael McClure Allen Ginsburg Jack Kerouac 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The decline of empires The seasons of nature The different phases of life Sports 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Haiku Free verse Limerick Sonnet 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Octaves and sextets Monostiches and couplets Couplets and tercets Quatrains and tercets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In castles In domestic spaces On battlefields In cities 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Technology Human inventiveness Science Materialism 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? New York University Brooklyn College State University of New York-Buffalo Columbia University 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Hilda Morley Kenneth Rexroth Paul Blackburn Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Charlie Parker Chet Baker Curtis Mayfield Duke Ellington 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Bollingen Pultzer Ruth Lilly Nobel 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Love Meaning Science Loss 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Hades Icarus Aeneas Agamemnon 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His nephew His son His grandmother 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 death of her brother The collapse of her marriage Moving away from her family The loss of a dog 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 make a relationship work Lying Trying and failing to define love Writer's block 25 What year was Creeley born? 1928 1941 1975 1926
