I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

1955

1991

2005
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Futurists

The Beat poets

The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker's friend

The speaker

A CEO

A big car
4 Where does the poem take place?
By a lake

In a car

Near a forest

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

"said"

"seized"

"sold"
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"

"your"

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

Sextets

Couplets

Quatrains
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
An airplane

A big car

Stars

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

Talkative

Cheerful

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

Dactylic hexameter

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?
A rain cloud

The color red

Darkness

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

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's inability to get home

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 investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Read it out loud

Disavow it in public

Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work
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

At the height of an arguement

In the middle of a conversation
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

Always bring a map

Not take shortcuts
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it seem unfinished

They make it feel more immediate

They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem like it has typographical errors
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?
Synecdoche

Zeugma

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 underlined

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

We don't know

John

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

Commas

Semicolons

Periods

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