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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.
(a) Creative genius.
(b) Cognitive recall.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Real personal significance.

2. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?
(a) Foreign words.
(b) Words that start with vowels.
(c) Multisyllabic.
(d) Monosyllabic.

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

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

5. 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) Usage.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Context.
(d) Meaning.

6. 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?
(a) William Stafford.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Mark Strand.
(d) Roethke.

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

8. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.
(a) Heaven.
(b) The gold.
(c) A master's degree.
(d) Publish.

9. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.
(a) Lush.
(b) On fire all the time.
(c) Filled with oil wells.
(d) Uninhabited.

10. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) Seventy-seven inches.
(b) Four inches.
(c) Twenty feet.
(d) None.

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) Common sense.
(c) Didacticism.
(d) Lack of common sense.

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

13. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Burn their rough drafts.
(b) Use profanity.
(c) Become arrogant.
(d) Become impotent.

14. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.
(a) Lopsided.
(b) Rusted through.
(c) Completely full.
(d) Silver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

2. The hermit in one of Hugo's assumptions eats mostly _____.

3. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.

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

5. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?

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