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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?
(a) "The Silver Jubilee".
(b) "The Handsome Heart".
(c) "The Golden Echo".
(d) "The Sea Took Pity".

2. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.
(a) Corny inhabitants.
(b) Sticky problems.
(c) Ridiculous areas.
(d) Malleability.

3. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.
(a) Id.
(b) Taste for danger.
(c) Moral sense.
(d) Need for approval.

4. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.
(a) Outcast.
(b) Old farmhand.
(c) Army deserter.
(d) Action star.

5. 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) An artist's ability to paint with words.
(c) Uncommon grace.
(d) Good ears.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

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

4. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the assumption where the outcast returns?

2. What are the reasons Hugo gives when he agrees with Auden's view that poets don't take things as seriously as other people do?

3. In what way does Hugo feel that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from the initiating subject of a poem?

4. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?

5. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.

6. How does Hugo describe Hieronymous Bosch's relationship with his paintings?

7. What does Hugo say is Roethke's strength as a teacher?

8. What are some of the ways Hugo suggests moving away from the initiating subject?

9. Why does Hugo say that Roethke thinks that young chicks are the best students?

10. What does the hermit in one assumption do to fill his days?

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