The World (poem) Quizzes

The World (poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1962

1972

1992

1964
2 What appears in the speaker's bedroom?
A disembodied light

A bird

A dog

A grey figure
3 What does the speaker want to be able to do?
Escape his home

Comfort his wife

Open the window

End his marriage
4 What literary movement was Creeley a part of?
The Black Mountain School

The Symbolists

Modernism

The Beats
5 What poet was a colleague of Creeley's?
Sappho

Billy Collins

Elizabeth Bishop

Hilda Morley
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Two

Fourteen

Seven
7 Which of the following is a recurring image in the poem?
Stars

Light

Waves

Fire
8 What does the speaker do at the beginning of the poem?
Cook dinner

Make the bed

Put a log in the fireplace

Move the curtains
9 Who is the grey figure?
The speaker

The speaker's wife

The speaker's father

The speaker's wife's brother
10 What words best describe the tone of the poem?
Warm and cheerful

Angry but resigned

Bitter and sharp

Loving but mournful
11 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The dark

The speaker's wife

The speaker

The grey figure
12 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Free verse
13 What type of stanza does the poem end with?
Monostich

Quatrain

Couplet

Quintain
14 What does the grey figure symbolize in the poem?
Unresolved anger

Depression

Lingering grief

Anxiety
15 What do the opening lines foreshadow?
That a ghost will appear

That the speaker is in grave danger

That someone in the speaker's life has suffered

That night is about to fall
16 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
Birds

Light

A window

A grey figure
17 Where is the poem set?
In a cabin

On the shore of a lake

In a bedroom

In the woods
18 Which the following poets was NOT associated with the Black Mountain School
Michael McClure

Hilda Morley

Charles Olson

Robert Creeley
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The light, love, / the light we felt then,"

"but in the dark then / as you slept, the grey"

"between us, as you / slept, restless, and"

"he is dead, and he / went as you shifted"
20 Who wrote the essay "Projective Verse" in 1950?
Paul Blackburn

Robert Creeley

Gary Snyder

Charles Olson
21 What was a central focus of works from the Black Mountain School?
Clarity of imagery

Employing ornate metaphors

Breaking away from closed, traditional poetic forms

Genre pastiche
22 What type of stanza is the poem primarily made up of?
Couplets

Sextets

Septets

Tercets
23 What is the climax of the poem?
When the speaker fights the figure

When the figure leans over the bed

When the figure appears

When the speaker wards off the figure
24 What image does the poem end with?
Rustling trees

A sunrise

An alarm clock

The speaker's wife waking
25 How does the speaker get the figure to disappear?
By insulting it

By telling it that his wife is happy

By getting into an altercation with it

By pretending to still be asleep