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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Failures.
(c) Art work.
(d) Jobs.

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

4. Hugo says that Roethke only wanted _____ in his class because you can teach them.
(a) Brave young men.
(b) Senior citizens.
(c) Graduate students.
(d) Innocent young chicks.

5. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.
(a) Greece.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Thailand.
(d) England.

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

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

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

9. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.
(a) Starvation.
(b) Piety.
(c) Madness.
(d) Devotion.

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

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

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

13. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.
(a) Gopher.
(b) Prairie dog.
(c) Horny toad.
(d) Another snake.

14. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because it works for him.
(b) Because it opens up psychic channels.
(c) Because it is free of personal association.
(d) Because one has intense attachment to it.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.

2. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.

3. Hugo teaches that words love the _____ of people's minds.

4. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.

5. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

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