The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Beats

The French Symbolists

The Transcendentalists

The Black Mountain Poets
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Words

For Love

Life and Death

Later
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
Rimbaud

Charles Olson

Gary Snyder

T.S. Eliot
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Harsh

Decorous

Straightforward

Dense
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Dartmouth

Yale

Harvard

Princeton
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
All content must be political

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in

Form must be an extension of content

Poems must include allusions to other poems
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Baudelaire

Virgil

Dante

Basho
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?
William Carlos Williams

Allen Ginsburg

Jack Kerouac

Michael McClure
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?
The decline of empires

Sports

The different phases of life

The seasons of nature
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Haiku

Sonnet

Free verse

Limerick
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?
Octaves and sextets

Monostiches and couplets

Quatrains and tercets

Couplets and tercets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In castles

In cities

In domestic spaces

On battlefields
13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"?
Technology

Materialism

Science

Human inventiveness
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?
Columbia University

State University of New York-Buffalo

New York University

Brooklyn College
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?
Kenneth Rexroth

Hilda Morley

Paul Blackburn

Ed Dorn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Chet Baker

Charlie Parker

Duke Ellington

Curtis Mayfield
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Pultzer

Nobel

Ruth Lilly

Bollingen
18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work?
Science

Meaning

Loss

Love
19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"?
Agamemnon

Hades

Aeneas

Icarus
20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to?
His son

His wife

His grandmother

His nephew
21 Who is the poem "Names" about?
Marilyn Monroe

Lauren Bacall

Arthur Miller

Humphrey Bogart
22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"?
Moving away from her family

The death of her brother

The collapse of her marriage

The loss of a dog
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?
During a snowstorm

After an arguement

Before a debate

In the middle of a conversation
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Writer's block

Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Trying and failing to define love

Lying
25 What year was Creeley born?
1926

1928

1975

1941

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