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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. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.
(a) Too early.
(b) In an abrupt manner.
(c) Immediately.
(d) Late.

2. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Stealing.
(b) Selling corn.
(c) Bargaining.
(d) Eating mushrooms.

3. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Become true.
(b) Dissolve.
(c) Correlate.
(d) Reanimate.

4. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.
(a) Madness.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Piety.

5. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) None.
(b) Twenty feet.
(c) Four inches.
(d) Seventy-seven inches.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

4. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.

5. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?

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