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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term Hugo uses for adding unnecessary words to a form?
(a) Clarifying.
(b) Padding.
(c) Overfilling.
(d) Complicating.

2. The two prostitutes in an assumption are nice to everyone but _____.
(a) Each other.
(b) Their mothers.
(c) The author.
(d) The mayor.

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

4. What kind of voice does Hugo say that Roethke used in class?
(a) A high tenor voice.
(b) A humphrey Bogart voice.
(c) A W.C. Fields-as-gangster voice.
(d) An intellectually seductive voice.

5. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?
(a) "Good effort."
(b) "Gee."
(c) "Go home."
(d) "That is garbage."

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

2. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.

3. How many people are in jail in one assumption?

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

5. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?

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