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

2. What kind of voice does Hugo say that Roethke used in class?
(a) A W.C. Fields-as-gangster voice.
(b) A high tenor voice.
(c) A humphrey Bogart voice.
(d) An intellectually seductive voice.

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

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

5. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His critiques.
(b) His finals.
(c) His tardiness.
(d) His slothful explanations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Hugo, Roethke has _____ values.

3. What does Hugo say seldom happens to writers who don't work at it?

4. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.

5. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two attitudes Hugo says a writer carries to the page?

3. What are the reasons Hugo gives when he agrees with Auden's view that poets don't take things as seriously as other people do?

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

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

6. How does Roethke read a poem, and what does Hugo say is the effect it has on students?

7. In the poem "At Stillit's Mouth", what does Hugo say about his own sense of the dramatic?

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

9. Describe the schoolhouse in the triggering town and who teaches there.

10. What does Hugo say is Roethke's strength as a teacher?

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