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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

2. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.

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

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

5. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?

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