1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The French Symbolists The Beats The Transcendentalists The Black Mountain Poets 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Life and Death Words For Love Later 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? T.S. Eliot Gary Snyder Rimbaud Charles Olson 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Dense Decorous Harsh Straightforward 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Yale Harvard Dartmouth Princeton 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in All content must be political Form must be an extension of content Poems must include allusions to other poems 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Baudelaire Virgil Dante Basho 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? Sports The decline of empires The different phases of life The seasons of nature 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Free verse Sonnet Haiku Limerick 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Monostiches and couplets Quatrains and tercets Octaves and sextets Couplets and tercets 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"? Materialism Technology Human inventiveness Science 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? New York University State University of New York-Buffalo Columbia University Brooklyn College 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Paul Blackburn Hilda Morley Kenneth Rexroth Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Chet Baker Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Ruth Lilly Pultzer Bollingen Nobel 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Meaning Love Science Loss 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Agamemnon Aeneas Icarus Hades 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His nephew His grandmother His son 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Arthur Miller Marilyn Monroe Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The collapse of her marriage The death of her brother Moving away from her family The loss of a dog 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? After an arguement Before a debate In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Lying Trying and failing to define love Writer's block Trying and failing to make a relationship work 25 What year was Creeley born? 1975 1926 1941 1928
