The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

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

The Transcendentalists

The Black Mountain Poets

The French Symbolists
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Life and Death

Words

Later

For Love
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
Gary Snyder

T.S. Eliot

Charles Olson

Rimbaud
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Harsh

Dense

Decorous

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

Princeton

Harvard

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

Poems must include allusions to other poems

All content must be political
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Basho

Dante

Baudelaire

Virgil
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?
Allen Ginsburg

Jack Kerouac

Michael McClure

William Carlos Williams
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?
The different phases of life

Sports

The decline of empires

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

Limerick

Sonnet

Free verse
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?
Couplets and tercets

Quatrains and tercets

Monostiches and couplets

Octaves and sextets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In cities

In domestic spaces

In castles

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?
State University of New York-Buffalo

New York University

Brooklyn College

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

Paul Blackburn

Hilda Morley

Ed Dorn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Charlie Parker

Duke Ellington

Curtis Mayfield

Chet Baker
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Bollingen

Nobel

Pultzer

Ruth Lilly
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"?
Icarus

Hades

Aeneas

Agamemnon
20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to?
His grandmother

His wife

His nephew

His son
21 Who is the poem "Names" about?
Humphrey Bogart

Arthur Miller

Lauren Bacall

Marilyn Monroe
22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"?
The death of her brother

Moving away from her family

The loss of a dog

The collapse of her marriage
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?
After an arguement

In the middle of a conversation

During a snowstorm

Before a debate
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Trying and failing to define love

Writer's block

Lying

Trying and failing to make a relationship work
25 What year was Creeley born?
1941

1975

1926

1928

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