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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Philosphy or social criticism.
(b) Joining NASA.
(c) Thinking big.
(d) Running for president.

4. 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) Hometown.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Place to avoid.
(d) Nemesis.

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

6. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?
(a) "The Handsome Heart".
(b) "The Silver Jubilee".
(c) "The Golden Echo".
(d) "The Sea Took Pity".

7. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.
(a) Corrupt and incompetent.
(b) A gifted healer.
(c) Also the town drunk.
(d) Dying of cancer.

8. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Auden.
(b) Himself.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Pound.

9. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Bargaining.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Eating mushrooms.
(d) Selling corn.

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

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

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

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

14. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?
(a) Roethke.
(b) William Stafford.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) Mark Strand.

15. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.
(a) Friend.
(b) Cynic.
(c) Dictator.
(d) Relative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.

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

3. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

4. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?

5. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

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