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 Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets

The Futurists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker

A CEO

The speaker's friend

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?
Near a forest

In a car

In the desert

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

"sold"

"said"

"sad"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"you're"

"year"

"your"

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

Tercets

Quatrains

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

Stars

An airplane

The night sky
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Irritable

Cheerful

Talkative

Quiet
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief

Formal and serious

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

A rain cloud

A stormy sea

The color red
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By joining a gym

By purchasing a home

By driving

By investing in the stock market
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

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

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the last stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

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

Not take shortcuts

Watch where he's going

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 feel more immediate

They make it seem unfinished
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

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

Zeugma

Unconventional capitalization

Enjambment
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is broken up between two lines

It appears on a line by itself

It is italicized

It is underlined
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?
Semicolons

Periods

Commas

Parentheses

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