I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

2005

1991

1955

1959
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?

The Beat poets

The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists

The Surrealists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?

The speaker

A CEO

A big car

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

By a lake

In the desert

Near a forest

In a car
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?

"sad"

"sold"

"seized"

"said"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"
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

Sextets

Couplets

Tercets
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

Quiet

Talkative
11 What is the meter of the poem?

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual

Formal and serious

Bitter and brief
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?

A stormy sea

Darkness

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 anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?

By driving

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym

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

Anthologize it

Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

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?

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip
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 seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

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?

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn

Paul Blackburn

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 is underlined

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

It is broken up between two lines
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?

Parentheses

Commas

Periods

Semicolons

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