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? For Love Life and Death Later Words 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Rimbaud Charles Olson 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? Harvard Dartmouth Yale Princeton 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? All content must be political Poems must include allusions to other poems Form must be an extension of content Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Basho Virgil Dante Baudelaire 8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson? Michael McClure William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsburg 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? Haiku Sonnet Free verse Limerick 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 domestic spaces In cities On battlefields In castles 13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"? Technology Science 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 Paul Blackburn Hilda Morley Ed Dorn 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Duke Ellington Chet Baker Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Pultzer Bollingen Ruth Lilly 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"? Agamemnon Icarus Hades Aeneas 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His wife His grandmother His son 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"? The death of her brother Moving away from her family The collapse of her marriage The loss of a dog 23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin? In the middle of a conversation Before a debate After an arguement During a snowstorm 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? 1928 1926 1975 1941
