1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Beats The Black Mountain Poets The Transcendentalists The French Symbolists 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Words Later For Love Life and Death 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Charles Olson Rimbaud T.S. Eliot Gary Snyder 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Harsh Straightforward Dense Decorous 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Princeton Harvard Dartmouth Yale 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Form must be an extension of content All content must be political Poems must include allusions to other poems 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Basho Baudelaire Virgil Dante 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Jack Kerouac Michael McClure William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsburg 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? The different phases of life Sports The seasons of nature The decline of empires 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Haiku Free verse Sonnet Limerick 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Couplets and tercets Monostiches and couplets Octaves and sextets Quatrains and tercets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In cities In castles In domestic spaces On battlefields 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Materialism Technology Human inventiveness Science 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? Brooklyn College Columbia University New York University State University of New York-Buffalo 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 Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Nobel Ruth Lilly Bollingen Pultzer 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Love Science Loss Meaning 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Icarus Hades Aeneas Agamemnon 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His grandmother His son His wife His nephew 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller Lauren Bacall 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? Moving away from her family The loss of a dog The collapse of her marriage The death of her brother 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? During a snowstorm In the middle of a conversation Before a debate After an arguement 24 What is the poem "The Language" about? Lying Trying and failing to define love Writer's block Trying and failing to make a relationship work 25 What year was Creeley born? 1926 1928 1975 1941
