The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?
The Transcendentalists

The French Symbolists

The Black Mountain Poets

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

Life and Death

Later

Words
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?
T.S. Eliot

Gary Snyder

Rimbaud

Charles Olson
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?
Dense

Decorous

Straightforward

Harsh
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?
Yale

Dartmouth

Princeton

Harvard
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?
All content must be political

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in

Form must be an extension of content

Poems must include allusions to other poems
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?
Baudelaire

Dante

Basho

Virgil
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 seasons of nature

The decline of empires

The different phases of life

Sports
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?
Free verse

Sonnet

Limerick

Haiku
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?
Quatrains and tercets

Couplets and tercets

Monostiches and couplets

Octaves and sextets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?
In castles

In cities

In domestic spaces

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

Technology

Human inventiveness

Materialism
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?
State University of New York-Buffalo

Brooklyn College

New York University

Columbia University
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?
Hilda Morley

Ed Dorn

Kenneth Rexroth

Paul Blackburn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?
Curtis Mayfield

Duke Ellington

Charlie Parker

Chet Baker
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?
Ruth Lilly

Pultzer

Bollingen

Nobel
18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work?
Love

Loss

Science

Meaning
19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"?
Hades

Aeneas

Icarus

Agamemnon
20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to?
His grandmother

His wife

His nephew

His son
21 Who is the poem "Names" about?
Humphrey Bogart

Marilyn Monroe

Lauren Bacall

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

The loss of a dog

The collapse of her marriage

Moving away from her family
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?
Lying

Writer's block

Trying and failing to make a relationship work

Trying and failing to define love
25 What year was Creeley born?
1975

1926

1928

1941

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