The World (poem) Quizzes

The World (poem) Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1964

1992

1962

1972
2 What appears in the speaker's bedroom?
A dog

A bird

A disembodied light

A grey figure
3 What does the speaker want to be able to do?
Open the window

Escape his home

End his marriage

Comfort his wife
4 What literary movement was Creeley a part of?
The Beats

Modernism

The Symbolists

The Black Mountain School
5 What poet was a colleague of Creeley's?
Hilda Morley

Elizabeth Bishop

Sappho

Billy Collins
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Fourteen

Two
7 Which of the following is a recurring image in the poem?
Light

Waves

Stars

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's wife's brother

The speaker

The speaker's father

The speaker's wife
10 What words best describe the tone of the poem?
Angry but resigned

Loving but mournful

Warm and cheerful

Bitter and sharp
11 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The grey figure

The speaker

The speaker's wife

The dark
12 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
13 What type of stanza does the poem end with?
Quintain

Couplet

Quatrain

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

Depression

Lingering grief

Anxiety
15 What do the opening lines foreshadow?
That someone in the speaker's life has suffered

That the speaker is in grave danger

That night is about to fall

That a ghost will appear
16 Which of the following is not a symbol in the poem?
A grey figure

Birds

Light

A window
17 Where is the poem set?
In a bedroom

On the shore of a lake

In a cabin

In the woods
18 Which the following poets was NOT associated with the Black Mountain School
Robert Creeley

Charles Olson

Michael McClure

Hilda Morley
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"he is dead, and he / went as you shifted"

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

"The light, love, / the light we felt then,"

"between us, as you / slept, restless, and"
20 Who wrote the essay "Projective Verse" in 1950?
Robert Creeley

Charles Olson

Paul Blackburn

Gary Snyder
21 What was a central focus of works from the Black Mountain School?
Breaking away from closed, traditional poetic forms

Clarity of imagery

Employing ornate metaphors

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

Tercets

Couplets

Septets
23 What is the climax of the poem?
When the figure leans over the bed

When the speaker fights the figure

When the speaker wards off the figure

When the figure appears
24 What image does the poem end with?
The speaker's wife waking

An alarm clock

A sunrise

Rustling trees
25 How does the speaker get the figure to disappear?
By insulting it

By getting into an altercation with it

By telling it that his wife is happy

By pretending to still be asleep