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

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

3. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Twelfth Night.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) King Lear.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.

2. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

3. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?

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

5. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

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