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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nuts and Bolts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The two prostitutes in an assumption are nice to everyone but _____.
(a) The author.
(b) Their mothers.
(c) The mayor.
(d) Each other.

2. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.
(a) A gifted healer.
(b) Also the town drunk.
(c) Corrupt and incompetent.
(d) Dying of cancer.

3. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) The words.
(b) As a reminder.
(c) God's will.
(d) The greater good.

4. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.
(a) At the beginning of the denouement.
(b) At the very end.
(c) In the first paragraph.
(d) In the title.

5. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Salmonberry.
(c) Royal purple.
(d) Salal.

Short Answer Questions

1. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

2. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.

3. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?

4. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.

5. Hugo says that Roethke only wanted _____ in his class because you can teach them.

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