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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. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) Sir Alexander Fleming.
(c) John George Alexander.
(d) Marie Curie.

2. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?
(a) Getting published.
(b) Proper recognition.
(c) Lucky accidents.
(d) Comraderie.

3. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.
(a) Phrases.
(b) Problems.
(c) Forms.
(d) Words.

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

5. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Paris.
(c) Toledo.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

2. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?

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

4. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

5. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?

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