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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?
2. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.
3. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.
4. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.
5. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hugo describe Hieronymous Bosch's relationship with his paintings?
2. Describe the schoolhouse in the triggering town and who teaches there.
3. Why are people suspicious of Hugo in the assumption about couples?
4. In Hugo's opinion, why do most students respect Roethke as a teacher?
5. How does Hugo describe the role of the imagination in poetry?
6. In what way does Hugo feel that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from the initiating subject of a poem?
7. How does Roethke read a poem, and what does Hugo say is the effect it has on students?
8. In the poem "At Stillit's Mouth", what does Hugo say about his own sense of the dramatic?
9. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?
10. What happens to Hugo when he lives in New York in one assumption?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the advantages pointed out by Hugo of making up the rules as the poet goes along? What should making up rules do for the poet?
Essay Topic 2
What are Hugo's thoughts on having a stance in writing a poem? What examples does he give regarding stance and how does the presence or absence of a stance determine the poem's effectiveness?
Essay Topic 3
When Hugo meets a woman who asks for cigarettes in the field outside Canosa, how does he treat her? Why dose he treat her that way? How does he feel about the way he treats her?
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