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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?

2. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.

3. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.

4. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?

5. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 the reasons Hugo gives when he agrees with Auden's view that poets don't take things as seriously as other people do?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role of forms in poetry. How does Hugo feel about forms? How do the "traditionalists" feel about them?

Essay Topic 2

What are Hugo's views on whether or not good writing can actually be taught? What is the role of a good teacher?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Hugo's view of a poet's fear of amoral and shallow writing. When does Hugo say that this kind of writing would occur? What does he say of the moral sense of all the poets he knows personally?

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