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

2. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.
(a) Hedonisitic.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) Christian.
(d) Bourgeois.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?

3. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?

4. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.

5. The hermit in one of Hugo's assumptions eats mostly _____.

(see the answer key)

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