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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who says "...the more I practice, the luckier I get."?
(a) Johnny Carson.
(b) Jack Nicklaus.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Lou McGarrity.

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

5. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.
(a) Real personal significance.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Creative genius.
(d) Cognitive recall.

6. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
(a) Chorus girls.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Large rats.
(d) Babies.

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

8. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
(a) Problems.
(b) Sudden ease.
(c) Lack of inspiration.
(d) Longer length.

9. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Trombone.
(b) Piano.
(c) Flute.
(d) Tuba.

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

11. The two prostitutes in an assumption are nice to everyone but _____.
(a) The author.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Their mothers.
(d) Each other.

12. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.
(a) The words.
(b) The greater good.
(c) God's will.
(d) As a reminder.

13. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.
(a) In the title.
(b) At the beginning of the denouement.
(c) At the very end.
(d) In the first paragraph.

14. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) John George Alexander.
(d) Sir Alexander Fleming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that Roethke only wanted _____ in his class because you can teach them.

2. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?

3. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?

4. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.

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

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