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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Game face.
(b) Crap detector.
(c) Convention bucking device.
(d) Ability to copy.

2. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Piano.
(b) Flute.
(c) Trombone.
(d) Tuba.

3. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Valery.
(c) Mark Strand.
(d) David Wagoner.

4. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?
(a) Truth.
(b) Guessing.
(c) Comparisons.
(d) Verification.

5. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His slothful explanations.
(b) His critiques.
(c) His finals.
(d) His tardiness.

6. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.
(a) Forms.
(b) Words.
(c) Problems.
(d) Phrases.

7. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?
(a) Rimbaud's.
(b) Mallarme's.
(c) Sartre's.
(d) Williams'.

8. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Convention.
(d) The initiating subject.

9. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) The author.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Auden.
(d) Himself.

10. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) Money.
(b) Their grades.
(c) Critical acclaim.
(d) The reader.

11. How many people are in jail in one assumption?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Sixty people over sixty.
(d) Half the town.

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

13. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.
(a) Good ears.
(b) An artist's ability to paint with words.
(c) Uncommon grace.
(d) Distinct use of slang.

14. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Joining NASA.
(b) Thinking big.
(c) Running for president.
(d) Philosphy or social criticism.

15. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Disguise.
(d) Schmaltz.

Short Answer Questions

1. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.

2. What is the divorce rate in the town in one assumption?

3. Who says "...the more I practice, the luckier I get."?

4. How does Hugo describe Roethke's clothes?

5. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?

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