The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The Transcendentalists

The French Symbolists

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

Words

Life and Death

Later
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
Charles Olson

Rimbaud

T.S. Eliot

Gary Snyder
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Dense

Harsh

Decorous

Straightforward
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Yale

Dartmouth

Harvard

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"?
Dante

Baudelaire

Virgil

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 decline of empires

The seasons of nature

Sports
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Sonnet

Limerick

Free verse

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

Monostiches and couplets

Quatrains and tercets

Couplets and tercets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In cities

In castles

In domestic spaces

On battlefields
13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"?
Technology

Science

Human inventiveness

Materialism
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?
Columbia University

State University of New York-Buffalo

New York University

Brooklyn College
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?
Kenneth Rexroth

Hilda Morley

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Curtis Mayfield

Chet Baker

Duke Ellington

Charlie Parker
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Nobel

Pultzer

Bollingen

Ruth Lilly
18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work?
Meaning

Love

Loss

Science
19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"?
Icarus

Agamemnon

Aeneas

Hades
20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to?
His son

His grandmother

His wife

His nephew
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"?
Moving away from her family

The loss of a dog

The death of her brother

The collapse of her marriage
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?
Before a debate

In the middle of a conversation

After an arguement

During a snowstorm
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Writer's block

Lying

Trying and failing to define love
25 What year was Creeley born?
1941

1975

1926

1928

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