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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. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Failures.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Art work.

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

3. Which artist does Hugo think is interpreted as a weirdo when one first sees his paintings?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Claude Monet.
(c) Hieronymus Bosch.
(d) Vincent Van Gogh.

4. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?
(a) Coyotes.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Mountain lions.

5. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Hometown.
(c) Nemesis.
(d) Place to avoid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

2. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.

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

4. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?

5. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.

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