I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

2005

1955

1991
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?
A big car

The speaker's friend

A CEO

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

Near a forest

By a lake

In a car
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,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"yore"

"year"

"you're"

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

Quatrains

Sextets

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

The night sky

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?
Free verse

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bitter and brief

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
The color red

Darkness

A rain cloud

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's dislike of his friend
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By purchasing a home

By driving

By investing in the stock market

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

Hold it up as his greatest work

Read it out loud

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

In the third stanza

In the second stanza

In the last 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?
Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Never pay too much for a car

Watch where he's going
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it feel more immediate

They make it seem unfinished

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it more difficult to understand
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Zeugma

Enjambment

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

It is broken up between two lines

It is underlined

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

John

Robert

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

Commas

Semicolons

Periods

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