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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?
(a) The poet's publishing rights.
(b) The poet's legacy.
(c) The poet's feelings about his work.
(d) The poet's name.

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

3. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Classical era.
(b) The Post-modern era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Neo-Classical era.

4. Hugo tells the poet not to worry about _____ when writing.
(a) Morality.
(b) Word sounds.
(c) Timing.
(d) Length.

5. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".
(a) Yourself.
(b) Your loved ones.
(c) God.
(d) Your teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

2. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

3. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?

4. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Hugo's opinion, why do most students respect Roethke as a teacher?

2. According to Hugo, what happens to words in a news article?

3. How does Hugo think Roethke's teaching would affect modern students (at the time the book was written)?

4. Describe the two outcomes of the annual picnic in the triggering town.

5. What is the nature of the initiating subject?

6. In what way does Hugo feel that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from the initiating subject of a poem?

7. According to Hugo, what can happen to facts when writing a poem?

8. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.

9. What does the hermit in one assumption do to fill his days?

10. Why does Hugo say that Roethke thinks that young chicks are the best students?

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