I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1955

1991

1959
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists

The Surrealists

The Beat poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A big car

A CEO

The speaker's friend

The speaker
4 Where does the poem take place?
In the desert

Near a forest

In a car

By a lake
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"sold"

"sad"

"said"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"yore"

"your"

"you're"

"year"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Couplets

Quatrains

Sextets

Tercets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
The night sky

A big car

An airplane

Stars
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Cheerful

Quiet

Irritable

Talkative
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bitter and brief

Formal and serious

Colloquial and anxious

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

A stormy sea

The color red

A rain cloud
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's inability to get home
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By driving

By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Anthologize it

Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

Disavow it in public
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the third stanza

In the last stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
At the height of an arguement

In the middle of a conversation

During a road trip

In the midst of a nightmare
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Never pay too much for a car
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?
Paul Blackburn

Charles Olson

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Zeugma

Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization

Synecdoche
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is underlined

It appears on a line by itself

It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
John

We don't know

Charles

Robert
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Commas

Periods

Semicolons

Parentheses

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