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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) Four inches.
(b) Seventy-seven inches.
(c) Twenty feet.
(d) None.

3. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
(a) Slothful.
(b) Detailed.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Competitive.

4. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?
(a) David Wagoner.
(b) Ezra Pound.
(c) Richard Wagner.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.
(a) Taste for danger.
(b) Moral sense.
(c) Need for approval.
(d) Id.

6. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.
(a) Hedonisitic.
(b) Bourgeois.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Christian.

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

8. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?
(a) The ballpark.
(b) The high school gymnasium.
(c) The college.
(d) The performing arts center.

9. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.
(a) Surprise.
(b) Schmaltz.
(c) Disguise.
(d) Plagiarism.

10. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.
(a) Filled with oil wells.
(b) Uninhabited.
(c) Lush.
(d) On fire all the time.

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

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

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

14. The hermit in one of Hugo's assumptions eats mostly _____.
(a) Sardines.
(b) Popcorn.
(c) Grub worms.
(d) Fried potatoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?

2. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.

3. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.

4. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.

5. Hugo states that some traditionalists seem to think that _____ exist to be solved for their own sake, as if the poet is an engineer.

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