I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1959

1955

1991
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists

The Futurists

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

The speaker

A big car

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
In a car

By a lake

Near a forest

In the desert
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"seized"

"sad"

"sold"

"said"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"because I am / always talking,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"

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

"yore"

"your"

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

Sextets

Couplets

Quatrains
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?
Talkative

Irritable

Cheerful

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

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
A rain cloud

A stormy sea

The color red

Darkness
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 dislike of his friend

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

By joining a gym

By purchasing a home

By investing in the stock market
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

Read it out loud
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the first stanza

In the last stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
During a road trip

In the middle of a conversation

At the height of an arguement

In the midst of a nightmare
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Not take shortcuts

Watch where he's going

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 feel more immediate

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn

Charles Olson
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Zeugma

Synecdoche

Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization
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

Robert

Charles
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Periods

Parentheses

Semicolons

Commas

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