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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) Build houses for the poor.
(d) Drink constantly.

2. At what age does Hugo start teaching?
(a) Sixty-five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Forty.

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

4. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Thinking big.
(b) Philosphy or social criticism.
(c) Running for president.
(d) Joining NASA.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are in jail in one assumption?

2. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.

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

4. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

5. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?

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