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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. What do the people in one assumption do to ward off boredom?
(a) Eat constantly.
(b) Commit adultery.
(c) Drink constantly.
(d) Build houses for the poor.

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

3. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?
(a) Hieronymus Bosch.
(b) Salvador Dali.
(c) Claude Monet.
(d) Vincent Van Gogh.

4. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.
(a) Heaven.
(b) A master's degree.
(c) Publish.
(d) The gold.

5. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) Seventy-seven inches.
(b) Four inches.
(c) Twenty feet.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?

3. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?

4. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.

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

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