The World (poem) Quizzes

The World (poem) Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed May 30, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1992

1964

1962

1972
2 What appears in the speaker's bedroom?

A grey figure

A dog

A bird

A disembodied light
3 What does the speaker want to be able to do?

Escape his home

End his marriage

Comfort his wife

Open the window
4 What literary movement was Creeley a part of?

Modernism

The Symbolists

The Beats

The Black Mountain School
5 What poet was a colleague of Creeley's?

Elizabeth Bishop

Billy Collins

Sappho

Hilda Morley
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Two

Seven

Fourteen

Four
7 Which of the following is a recurring image in the poem?

Stars

Light

Waves

Fire
8 What does the speaker do at the beginning of the poem?

Move the curtains

Make the bed

Put a log in the fireplace

Cook dinner
9 Who is the grey figure?

The speaker's wife's brother

The speaker

The speaker's father

The speaker's wife
10 What words best describe the tone of the poem?

Warm and cheerful

Bitter and sharp

Angry but resigned

Loving but mournful
11 Who is the antagonist of the poem?

The grey figure

The speaker

The dark

The speaker's wife
12 What is the meter of the poem?

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
13 What type of stanza does the poem end with?

Monostich

Quatrain

Quintain

Couplet
14 What does the grey figure symbolize in the poem?

Lingering grief

Anxiety

Unresolved anger

Depression
15 What do the opening lines foreshadow?

That someone in the speaker's life has suffered

That a ghost will appear

That the speaker is in grave danger

That night is about to fall
16 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?

Light

Birds

A grey figure

A window
17 Where is the poem set?

In the woods

In a cabin

In a bedroom

On the shore of a lake
18 Which the following poets was NOT associated with the Black Mountain School

Hilda Morley

Charles Olson

Michael McClure

Robert Creeley
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The light, love, / the light we felt then,"

"he is dead, and he / went as you shifted"

"but in the dark then / as you slept, the grey"

"between us, as you / slept, restless, and"
20 Who wrote the essay "Projective Verse" in 1950?

Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

Gary Snyder

Robert Creeley
21 What was a central focus of works from the Black Mountain School?

Clarity of imagery

Breaking away from closed, traditional poetic forms

Genre pastiche

Employing ornate metaphors
22 What type of stanza is the poem primarily made up of?

Sextets

Couplets

Septets

Tercets
23 What is the climax of the poem?

When the figure leans over the bed

When the figure appears

When the speaker wards off the figure

When the speaker fights the figure
24 What image does the poem end with?

The speaker's wife waking

Rustling trees

An alarm clock

A sunrise
25 How does the speaker get the figure to disappear?

By getting into an altercation with it

By telling it that his wife is happy

By insulting it

By pretending to still be asleep