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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nuts and Bolts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.
(a) Intellect.
(b) Training.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Obsessions.

2. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?
(a) Verification.
(b) Guessing.
(c) Comparisons.
(d) Truth.

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

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

5. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.
(a) Experience.
(b) Raw talent.
(c) Formal training.
(d) Accumulated technique.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.

2. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.

3. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.

4. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.

5. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.

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