I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1955

2005

1991

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

The Beat poets

The Black Mountain poets

The Surrealists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A CEO

The speaker

A big car

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

In the desert

By a lake

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

"sad"

"sold"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"because I am / always talking,"

"can we do against"

"name, the darkness sur-"

"for / christ’s sake,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"you're"

"yore"

"your"

"year"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Sextets

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets
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

Irritable

Quiet

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

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Formal and serious

Bitter and brief

Relaxed and casual

Colloquial and anxious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
A rain cloud

Darkness

A stormy sea

The color red
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By investing in the stock market

By purchasing a home

By joining a gym

By driving
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Anthologize it

Hold it up as his greatest work

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

In the second stanza

In the last stanza

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

In the middle of a conversation

In the midst of a nightmare

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

Watch where he's going

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map
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?
Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Synecdoche

Enjambment

Zeugma

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

It is underlined

It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
Charles

John

We don't know

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

Parentheses

Commas

Semicolons

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