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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) God's will.
(b) The words.
(c) As a reminder.
(d) The greater good.

5. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Himself.
(b) Auden.
(c) Pound.
(d) Yeats.

6. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
(a) Lack of inspiration.
(b) Longer length.
(c) Problems.
(d) Sudden ease.

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

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

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

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

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

12. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Dissolve.
(b) Become true.
(c) Correlate.
(d) Reanimate.

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

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

15. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Sounds.
(b) Origins.
(c) Orientations.
(d) Meanings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

2. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.

3. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.

4. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?

5. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?

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