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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. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.
(a) Rigidity.
(b) Tenderness.
(c) Clandestine behavior.
(d) Fluidity.

2. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Twelfth Night.
(d) Macbeth.

3. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.
(a) Prairie dog.
(b) Another snake.
(c) Gopher.
(d) Horny toad.

4. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Classical era.
(b) The Post-modern era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Neo-Classical era.

5. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.
(a) Hedonisitic.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.

2. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

3. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.

4. How many people are in jail in one assumption?

5. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.

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