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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) Auden.
(b) Himself.
(c) Yeats.
(d) The author.

3. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Roethke.
(b) Pound.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Auden.

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

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

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

7. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.
(a) An ex-football player.
(b) A drug dealer on the side.
(c) An alcoholic.
(d) A womanizer.

8. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.
(a) Place to leave bad ideas.
(b) Literal setting.
(c) Common ground.
(d) Base of operations.

9. 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) Nemesis.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Place to avoid.

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

11. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Full.
(c) Extreme.
(d) Empty.

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

13. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.
(a) Total control.
(b) Stock.
(c) Emotional possession.
(d) Care.

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

15. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?
(a) Monday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.

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

3. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.

4. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?

5. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.

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