1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The French Symbolists The Beats The Transcendentalists The Black Mountain Poets 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Later For Love Words Life and Death 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Gary Snyder T.S. Eliot Rimbaud Charles Olson 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Decorous Dense Straightforward Harsh 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 Poems must include allusions to other poems Form must be an extension of content 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Basho Virgil Baudelaire Dante 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Allen Ginsburg Michael McClure William Carlos Williams Jack Kerouac 9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work? Sports The seasons of nature The different phases of life The decline of empires 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Free verse Sonnet Limerick Haiku 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Quatrains and tercets Couplets and tercets Monostiches and couplets Octaves and sextets 12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set? In castles On battlefields In cities In domestic spaces 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Technology Human inventiveness Science Materialism 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? State University of New York-Buffalo Columbia University Brooklyn College New York University 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Paul Blackburn Hilda Morley Kenneth Rexroth Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Chet Baker Curtis Mayfield Duke Ellington Charlie Parker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Ruth Lilly Pultzer Bollingen Nobel 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Meaning Love Science Loss 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Aeneas Agamemnon Hades Icarus 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His nephew His wife His grandmother His son 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Humphrey Bogart Marilyn Monroe Lauren Bacall Arthur Miller 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? The death of her brother The collapse of her marriage The loss of a dog Moving away from her family 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? In the middle of a conversation During a snowstorm After an arguement Before a debate 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? 1975 1928 1926 1941