The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Black Mountain Poets

The Transcendentalists

The French Symbolists

The Beats
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?
Later

Life and Death

Words

For Love
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?
Harsh

Dense

Straightforward

Decorous
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Dartmouth

Yale

Princeton

Harvard
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in

Poems must include allusions to other poems

Form must be an extension of content

All content must be political
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Baudelaire

Basho

Virgil

Dante
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?
William Carlos Williams

Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsburg

Michael McClure
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?
The different phases of life

The decline of empires

Sports

The seasons of nature
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Sonnet

Haiku

Free verse

Limerick
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?
Octaves and sextets

Couplets and tercets

Monostiches and couplets

Quatrains and tercets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In domestic spaces

In castles

In cities

On battlefields
13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"?
Materialism

Technology

Science

Human inventiveness
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?
Ed Dorn

Kenneth Rexroth

Hilda Morley

Paul Blackburn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Charlie Parker

Curtis Mayfield

Chet Baker

Duke Ellington
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

Science

Meaning

Love
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 son

His nephew

His grandmother

His wife
21 Who is the poem "Names" about?
Marilyn Monroe

Lauren Bacall

Humphrey Bogart

Arthur Miller
22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"?
The death of her brother

The collapse of her marriage

The loss of a dog

Moving away from her family
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?
Before a debate

After an arguement

During a snowstorm

In the middle of a conversation
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?
Lying

Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Writer's block

Trying and failing to define love
25 What year was Creeley born?
1941

1926

1975

1928

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