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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stray Thoughts on Roethke and Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
(a) The Boeing Company.
(b) State Farm.
(c) Lockheed Martin.
(d) The postal service.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

3. Where do people sit a lot in one assumption?

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

5. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?

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