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

2. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?
(a) Yeats.
(b) David Wagoner.
(c) Mark Strand.
(d) Valery.

3. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.
(a) Rusted through.
(b) Completely full.
(c) Silver.
(d) Lopsided.

4. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?
(a) "Good effort."
(b) "Gee."
(c) "That is garbage."
(d) "Go home."

5. Hugo tells the poet not to worry about _____ when writing.
(a) Length.
(b) Word sounds.
(c) Timing.
(d) Morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?

2. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.

3. What is the divorce rate in the town in one assumption?

4. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.

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

(see the answer key)

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