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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. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?

2. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.

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

4. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

5. What is Buzz Green's previous profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens in the assumption where the outcast returns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Hugo feel is the role of competition in being a poetry writer? Who does he know that is competitive about it? What is the effect Hugo sees as a result of being competitive?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe the movies the G.I.'s watch during the war. What are the reactions of the bombardiers versus the pilots to one movie? Why?

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