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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) Taste for danger.
(c) Id.
(d) Need for approval.

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

3. The grain elevator in one assumption is _____.
(a) Rusted through.
(b) Completely full.
(c) Silver.
(d) Lopsided.

4. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Reanimate.
(b) Correlate.
(c) Become true.
(d) Dissolve.

5. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
(a) The postal service.
(b) The Boeing Company.
(c) Lockheed Martin.
(d) State Farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?

2. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

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

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

5. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?

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

5. What is Hugo's impression of Roethke's demeanor?

6. Why are people suspicious of Hugo in the assumption about couples?

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

8. What are some of the ways Hugo suggests moving away from the initiating subject?

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

10. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?

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