I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1991

2005

1959

1955
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?

The Futurists

The Beat poets

The Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

A CEO

The speaker

The speaker's friend

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?

Near a forest

By a lake

In the desert

In a car
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?

"sold"

"sad"

"said"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"can we do against"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"because I am / always talking,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?

"yore"

"year"

"your"

"you're"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?

Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets

Sextets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?

Stars

The night sky

An airplane

A big car
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?

Irritable

Talkative

Quiet

Cheerful
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?

A stormy sea

A rain cloud

Darkness

The color red
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?

By investing in the stock market

By joining a gym

By purchasing a home

By driving
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?

Hold it up as his greatest work

Read it out loud

Disavow it in public

Anthologize it
17 When is the climax of the poem?

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

In the last stanza

In the first stanza
18 How does the poem begin?

At the height of an arguement

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

During a road trip
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?

Watch where he's going

Never pay too much for a car

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem unfinished

They make it feel more immediate
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?

Ed Dorn

Charles Olson

Walt Whitman

Paul Blackburn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?

Synecdoche

Unconventional capitalization

Enjambment

Zeugma
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

It is broken up between two lines

It is underlined
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?

Robert

We don't know

Charles

John
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?

Semicolons

Parentheses

Periods

Commas

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