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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stray Thoughts on Roethke and Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because it opens up psychic channels.
(b) Because it is free of personal association.
(c) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(d) Because it works for him.

2. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?
(a) "Good effort."
(b) "That is garbage."
(c) "Go home."
(d) "Gee."

3. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.
(a) South Africa.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Greece.
(d) England.

4. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) John George Alexander.
(c) Sir Alexander Fleming.
(d) Marie Curie.

5. Where do people sit a lot in one assumption?
(a) On swings in the park.
(b) In their cars at stoplights that don't work.
(c) On their sofas.
(d) On their porches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.

2. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.

3. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?

4. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.

5. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.

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