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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 is Buzz Green's previous profession?
(a) Symphony conductor.
(b) Oil rig worker.
(c) Train conductor.
(d) Jazz musician.

2. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?
(a) Marvel.
(b) Kittridge.
(c) Auden.
(d) Herrick.

3. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.
(a) Cynic.
(b) Dictator.
(c) Friend.
(d) Relative.

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

5. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.
(a) Clandestine behavior.
(b) Rigidity.
(c) Tenderness.
(d) Fluidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

2. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.

3. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.

4. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.

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

(see the answer key)

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