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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. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
(a) Lack of inspiration.
(b) Sudden ease.
(c) Longer length.
(d) Problems.

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

3. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.
(a) In the title.
(b) In the first paragraph.
(c) At the beginning of the denouement.
(d) At the very end.

4. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?
(a) "The Handsome Heart".
(b) "The Silver Jubilee".
(c) "The Golden Echo".
(d) "The Sea Took Pity".

5. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Become arrogant.
(b) Use profanity.
(c) Become impotent.
(d) Burn their rough drafts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

2. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.

3. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

4. What does Hugo say endures most in a poet's work?

5. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Hugo when he lives in New York in one assumption?

2. Describe Hugo's advice on hard work when writing poetry.

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

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

5. What does Hugo point out are the distinctions between public and private poets?

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

7. Why does Hugo say to "think small" when writing a poem?

8. Why does Hugo suggest that the triggering town be unfamiliar?

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

10. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?

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