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