1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with? The Transcendentalists The Beats The Black Mountain Poets The French Symbolists 2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough? Later Words For Love Life and Death 3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship? Gary Snyder Rimbaud Charles Olson T.S. Eliot 4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style? Decorous Straightforward Harsh Dense 5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military? Harvard Princeton Yale Dartmouth 6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing? All content must be political Form must be an extension of content Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in Poems must include allusions to other poems 7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"? Baudelaire Virgil Dante Basho 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? The decline of empires The different phases of life The seasons of nature Sports 10 What form did Creeley most often write in? Sonnet Haiku Limerick Free verse 11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use? Octaves and sextets Monostiches and couplets Quatrains and tercets Couplets and tercets 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"? Materialism Science Technology Human inventiveness 14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years? New York University State University of New York-Buffalo Columbia University Brooklyn College 15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets? Ed Dorn Paul Blackburn Hilda Morley Kenneth Rexroth 16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing? Charlie Parker Curtis Mayfield Duke Ellington Chet Baker 17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive? Nobel Pultzer Bollingen Ruth Lilly 18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work? Loss Meaning Science Love 19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"? Aeneas Icarus Agamemnon Hades 20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to? His nephew His grandmother His wife His son 21 Who is the poem "Names" about? Arthur Miller Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart Marilyn Monroe 22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"? Moving away from her family The collapse of her marriage The death of her brother The loss of a dog 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 make a relationship work Trying and failing to define love Writer's block Lying 25 What year was Creeley born? 1941 1926 1928 1975