I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

1955

1991

2005
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat poets

The Futurists
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
The speaker's friend

A CEO

A big car

The speaker
4 Where does the poem take place?
By a lake

In the desert

Near a forest

In a car
5 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "sd" to mean?
"said"

"seized"

"sad"

"sold"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"

"name, the darkness sur-"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"year"

"you're"

"your"

"yore"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets

Sextets
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
Stars

The night sky

An airplane

A big car
10 How does the speaker characterize himself in the first stanza?
Irritable

Talkative

Quiet

Cheerful
11 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Colloquial and anxious

Relaxed and casual

Bitter and brief

Formal and serious
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
A rain cloud

Darkness

The color red

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's inability to get home

The speaker's search for meaning in the world
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By investing in the stock market

By joining a gym

By driving

By purchasing a home
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it

Read it out loud

Disavow it in public
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the last stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza

In the first stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
In the midst of a nightmare

In the middle of a conversation

At the height of an arguement

During a road trip
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Never pay too much for a car

Not take shortcuts

Always bring a map

Watch where he's going
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it more difficult to understand

They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

They make it seem unfinished
21 Which of the following poets was NOT a contemporary of Creeley's?
Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

Walt Whitman

Ed Dorn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization

Synecdoche

Zeugma
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is underlined

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

It is broken up between two lines
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
Robert

We don't know

John

Charles
25 What punctuation separates individual ideas in the poem?
Commas

Parentheses

Periods

Semicolons

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