View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stray Thoughts on Roethke and Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Use profanity.
(b) Burn their rough drafts.
(c) Become impotent.
(d) Become arrogant.

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

3. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Twelfth Night.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Macbeth.

4. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Convention.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) The initiating subject.

5. In the Hugo's opinion, a poet must have a streak of _____.
(a) Luck.
(b) Genius.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.

2. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.

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

4. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?

5. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 178 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample