The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The Transcendentalists

The Beats

The French Symbolists
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Later

For Love

Life and Death

Words
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
T.S. Eliot

Charles Olson

Gary Snyder

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

Decorous

Harsh

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

Harvard

Princeton

Dartmouth
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
Form must be an extension of content

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in

All content must be political

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

Basho

Baudelaire

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

Jack Kerouac

Michael McClure

Allen Ginsburg
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?
The seasons of nature

Sports

The different phases of life

The decline of empires
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Haiku

Limerick

Free verse

Sonnet
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 domestic spaces

In castles

In cities

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

Technology

Human inventiveness

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

Brooklyn College

State University of New York-Buffalo

New York University
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

Curtis Mayfield

Charlie Parker
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Ruth Lilly

Bollingen

Pultzer

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

Meaning

Science

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

Aeneas

Hades

Icarus
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?
Marilyn Monroe

Humphrey Bogart

Arthur Miller

Lauren Bacall
22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"?
The loss of a dog

The collapse of her marriage

The death of her brother

Moving away from her family
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?
Lying

Writer's block

Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Trying and failing to define love
25 What year was Creeley born?
1941

1975

1926

1928

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