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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. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.
(a) Swimming pool.
(b) Movie house.
(c) Carnival.
(d) Penny arcade.

2. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.
(a) Are dull.
(b) Belong.
(c) Are equal.
(d) Transcend.

3. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.
(a) Literal setting.
(b) Place to leave bad ideas.
(c) Base of operations.
(d) Common ground.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

3. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.

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

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

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