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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. At what age does Hugo start teaching?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Sixty-five.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Forty.
2. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Crap detector.
(b) Convention bucking device.
(c) Ability to copy.
(d) Game face.
3. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?
(a) John George Alexander.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Sir Alexander Fleming.
(d) Marie Curie.
4. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?
(a) "That is garbage."
(b) "Gee."
(c) "Good effort."
(d) "Go home."
5. How does Hugo describe Roethke's clothes?
(a) As feminine and colorful.
(b) As rotted and rags.
(c) As Gothic.
(d) As crisp and clean.
Short Answer Questions
1. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?
2. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.
3. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.
4. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.
5. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
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