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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 believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.
(a) Nemesis.
(b) Place to avoid.
(c) Hometown.
(d) Teacher.

2. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Failures.
(c) Art work.
(d) Jobs.

3. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) David Wagoner.
(d) Richard Wagner.

4. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?
(a) Auden.
(b) Kittridge.
(c) Herrick.
(d) Marvel.

5. Hugo states that the earth takes its configurations from the _____.
(a) Topography of the landscape.
(b) The laws of nature.
(c) Type of weather occurrances
(d) Time of day.

Short Answer Questions

1. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?

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

3. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.

4. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.

5. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. What happens in the assumption where the outcast returns?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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