I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1991

1959

1955

2005
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 big car

The speaker

The speaker's friend

A CEO
4 Where does the poem take place?
In the desert

In a car

Near a forest

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

"sold"

"sad"

"said"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"for / christ’s sake,"

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"you're"

"year"

"yore"

"your"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Quatrains

Sextets

Tercets

Couplets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
Stars

A big car

An airplane

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

Irritable

Talkative

Quiet
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief
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 search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's anxiety about driving
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By joining a gym

By driving

By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Hold it up as his greatest work

Disavow it in public

Read it out loud

Anthologize it
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the second stanza

In the last stanza

In the third stanza

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

In the midst of a nightmare

In the middle of a conversation

At the height of an arguement
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Never pay too much for a car

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

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

Paul Blackburn

Walt Whitman

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

Synecdoche

Unconventional capitalization

Enjambment
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It appears on a line by itself

It is italicized

It is broken up between two lines

It is underlined
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
We don't know

Charles

John

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

Parentheses

Periods

Semicolons

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