I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
2005

1991

1959

1955
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists

The Surrealists

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

A CEO

The speaker's friend

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

In the desert

Near a forest

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

"said"

"sold"

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

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"

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

"you're"

"yore"

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

Tercets

Couplets

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

Stars

The night sky

An airplane
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Irritable

Quiet

Talkative

Cheerful
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Free verse

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious

Bitter and brief

Formal and serious
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 inability to get home

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's dislike of his friend
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

Anthologize it

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

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip

In the middle of a conversation
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Always bring a map

Never pay too much for a car

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 seem unfinished

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

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

Ed Dorn

Charles Olson

Walt Whitman
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 italicized

It is underlined

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

Robert

Charles

We don't know
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Parentheses

Semicolons

Commas

Periods

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