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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. Who says "...the more I practice, the luckier I get."?
(a) Lou McGarrity.
(b) Jack Nicklaus.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Johnny Carson.

2. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.
(a) Lack of common sense.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Heart.
(d) Didacticism.

3. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.
(a) Devotion.
(b) Piety.
(c) Madness.
(d) Starvation.

4. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?
(a) Mountain lions.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Coyotes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

2. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?

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

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

5. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?

(see the answer key)

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