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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.
(a) Lack of common sense.
(b) Heart.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Didacticism.

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

3. What is the divorce rate in the town in one assumption?
(a) 100%.
(b) 50%.
(c) Zero.
(d) 40%.

4. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.
(a) Listening to the radio.
(b) Eating fast food.
(c) Drawing comic book characters.
(d) Watching television.

5. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.
(a) Army deserter.
(b) Outcast.
(c) Action star.
(d) Old farmhand.

6. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?
(a) Proper recognition.
(b) Getting published.
(c) Lucky accidents.
(d) Comraderie.

7. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.
(a) Distinct use of slang.
(b) An artist's ability to paint with words.
(c) Good ears.
(d) Uncommon grace.

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

9. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.
(a) Formal training.
(b) Experience.
(c) Raw talent.
(d) Accumulated technique.

10. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.
(a) Syntax.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Usage.
(d) Context.

11. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?
(a) Truth.
(b) Comparisons.
(c) Verification.
(d) Guessing.

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

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

14. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) Money.
(b) Their grades.
(c) Critical acclaim.
(d) The reader.

15. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.
(a) Rigidity.
(b) Clandestine behavior.
(c) Fluidity.
(d) Tenderness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of voice does Hugo say that Roethke used in class?

3. The two prostitutes in an assumption are nice to everyone but _____.

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

5. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?

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