I Know a Man Quizzes

I Know a Man Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1959

2005

1991

1955
2 What literary movement was Robert Creeley commonly associated with?
The Surrealists

The Black Mountain poets

The Futurists

The Beat poets
3 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A big car

A CEO

The speaker

The speaker's friend
4 Where does the poem take place?
Near a forest

By a lake

In the desert

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

"sold"

"said"

"seized"
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"name, the darkness sur-"

"can we do against"

"because I am / always talking,"

"for / christ’s sake,"
7 What does Creeley use the abbreviation "yr" to mean in the poem?
"your"

"yore"

"year"

"you're"
8 What type of stanzas does the poem use?
Tercets

Sextets

Couplets

Quatrains
9 Which of the following is an image in the poem?
The night sky

Stars

An airplane

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

Quiet

Talkative

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

Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter
12 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Bitter and brief

Colloquial and anxious

Formal and serious

Relaxed and casual
13 What image does the speaker use to depict his concerns?
Darkness

A rain cloud

The color red

A stormy sea
14 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The speaker's anxiety about driving

The speaker's dislike of his friend

The speaker's search for meaning in the world

The speaker's inability to get home
15 How does the speaker's friend suggest he get over his worries?
By purchasing a home

By driving

By investing in the stock market

By joining a gym
16 What did Creeley often do with this poem?
Disavow it in public

Read it out loud

Hold it up as his greatest work

Anthologize it
17 When is the climax of the poem?
In the last stanza

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the third stanza
18 How does the poem begin?
During a road trip

In the midst of a nightmare

In the middle of a conversation

At the height of an arguement
19 What does the speaker's friend tell him to do at the end of the poem?
Watch where he's going

Always bring a map

Not take shortcuts

Never pay too much for a car
20 What effect do the abbreviations in the poem have on the overall mood?
They make it seem like it has typographical errors

They make it feel more immediate

They make it more difficult to understand

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

Walt Whitman

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn
22 What literary device does Creeley use throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Unconventional capitalization

Zeugma

Synecdoche
23 What is unusual about the word "surrounds" in the poem?
It is broken up between two lines

It is italicized

It appears on a line by itself

It is underlined
24 What is the speaker's friend's name?
Charles

We don't know

John

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

Periods

Parentheses

Semicolons

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