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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What response from Roethke to a student's poem does Hugo find withering?
(a) "Go home."
(b) "Good effort."
(c) "Gee."
(d) "That is garbage."

2. Where do people sit a lot in one assumption?
(a) On swings in the park.
(b) On their porches.
(c) On their sofas.
(d) In their cars at stoplights that don't work.

3. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?
(a) The poet's legacy.
(b) The poet's publishing rights.
(c) The poet's name.
(d) The poet's feelings about his work.

4. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.
(a) Carnival.
(b) Movie house.
(c) Penny arcade.
(d) Swimming pool.

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

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

7. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.
(a) Dictating.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Dying.
(d) Evolved.

8. 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) Context.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Usage.
(d) Meaning.

9. How many people are in jail in one assumption?
(a) Half the town.
(b) Sixty people over sixty.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

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

11. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.
(a) Ridiculous areas.
(b) Corny inhabitants.
(c) Malleability.
(d) Sticky problems.

12. In the case of the snake poem, Hugo thinks that the author got off the initiating subject _____.
(a) Immediately.
(b) Too early.
(c) Late.
(d) In an abrupt manner.

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

14. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.
(a) Obsessions.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Training.
(d) Criticism.

15. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?
(a) Heaven.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

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

3. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.

4. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.

5. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?

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