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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. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His finals.
(b) His critiques.
(c) His slothful explanations.
(d) His tardiness.

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

3. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Post-modern era.
(b) The Classical era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Neo-Classical era.

4. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?
(a) Williams'.
(b) Mallarme's.
(c) Sartre's.
(d) Rimbaud's.

5. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Friday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

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

3. Where do people sit a lot in one assumption?

4. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

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

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