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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. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.
(a) On fire all the time.
(b) Filled with oil wells.
(c) Uninhabited.
(d) Lush.

2. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) As a reminder.
(b) The greater good.
(c) The words.
(d) God's will.

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

4. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) Yeats.
(b) The author.
(c) Auden.
(d) Himself.

5. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Detailed.
(c) Competitive.
(d) Slothful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.

2. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

3. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?

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

5. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.

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