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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Defense of Creative-Writing Classes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.
(a) A drug dealer on the side.
(b) An alcoholic.
(c) An ex-football player.
(d) A womanizer.

2. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.
(a) Too early.
(b) Late.
(c) In an abrupt manner.
(d) Immediately.

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

4. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Full.
(c) Empty.
(d) Extreme.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hugo describe Roethke's clothes?

2. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.

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. How many pencils does Hugo recommend sharpening to have on hand to write with?

5. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?

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