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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. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?
(a) Trombone.
(b) Flute.
(c) Piano.
(d) Tuba.

2. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
(a) Detailed.
(b) Competitive.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Slothful.

3. Who remarks that American poetry could not help but get better and better?
(a) Valery.
(b) Yeats.
(c) David Wagoner.
(d) Mark Strand.

4. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Stealing.
(b) Selling corn.
(c) Eating mushrooms.
(d) Bargaining.

5. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.
(a) An artist's ability to paint with words.
(b) Distinct use of slang.
(c) Good ears.
(d) Uncommon grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

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

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

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

5. Which person observes some mold and later cures gonorrhea?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hugo describe the role of the imagination in poetry?

3. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?

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