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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. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
(a) Jobs.
(b) Art work.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Failures.

2. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?
(a) Rimbaud's.
(b) Sartre's.
(c) Mallarme's.
(d) Williams'.

3. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) Richard Wagner.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) David Wagoner.

4. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.
(a) Also the town drunk.
(b) Dying of cancer.
(c) Corrupt and incompetent.
(d) A gifted healer.

5. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
(a) Slothful.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Competitive.
(d) Detailed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.

2. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.

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

4. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

5. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?

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