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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Become impotent.
(b) Use profanity.
(c) Become arrogant.
(d) Burn their rough drafts.

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

3. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.
(a) An ex-football player.
(b) An alcoholic.
(c) A drug dealer on the side.
(d) A womanizer.

4. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Roethke.
(b) Auden.
(c) Pound.
(d) Yeats.

5. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.
(a) Id.
(b) Moral sense.
(c) Taste for danger.
(d) Need for approval.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hugo suggest placing a typed poem in order to feel pressure to work on it some more?

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

3. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?

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

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

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