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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. According to Hugo, the imagination is a _____.
(a) Dictator.
(b) Friend.
(c) Cynic.
(d) Relative.

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

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

4. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) Money.
(b) Their grades.
(c) Critical acclaim.
(d) The reader.

5. At what age does Hugo start teaching?
(a) Forty.
(b) Sixty-five.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.

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

3. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.

4. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?

5. Who says "...the more I practice, the luckier I get."?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the nature of the initiating subject?

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

5. How does Hugo describe looking at the world of the imagination?

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

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

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

9. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?

10. 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?

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