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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.
(a) Are dull.
(b) Transcend.
(c) Belong.
(d) Are equal.

2. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
(a) Slothful.
(b) Competitive.
(c) Detailed.
(d) Arrogant.

3. 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 porches.
(d) On their sofas.

4. 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 works for him.
(c) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(d) Because it is free of personal association.

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

6. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.
(a) Place to leave bad ideas.
(b) Literal setting.
(c) Base of operations.
(d) Common ground.

7. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.
(a) Type of weather occurrances
(b) The laws of nature.
(c) Time of day.
(d) Topography of the landscape.

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

9. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Auden.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Pound.
(d) Roethke.

10. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.
(a) Dying.
(b) Evolved.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Dictating.

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

12. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?
(a) The poet's legacy.
(b) The poet's publishing rights.
(c) The poet's feelings about his work.
(d) The poet's name.

13. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.
(a) Context.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Usage.

14. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Selling corn.
(b) Bargaining.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Eating mushrooms.

15. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".
(a) Your teachers.
(b) Your loved ones.
(c) Yourself.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

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. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?

5. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

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