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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 offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Meanings.
(b) Origins.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Orientations.

2. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Himself.
(c) Auden.
(d) Pound.

3. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Ability to copy.
(b) Crap detector.
(c) Convention bucking device.
(d) Game face.

4. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Neo-Classical era.
(b) The Classical era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Post-modern era.

5. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.
(a) Lack of common sense.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Didacticism.
(d) Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.

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

3. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?

4. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

5. What kind of voice does Hugo say that Roethke used in class?

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