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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. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.
2. What animal roams the streets in one assumption?
3. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
4. Where does Hugo work with Buzz Green?
5. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two attitudes Hugo says a writer carries to the page?
2. How does Hugo describe looking at the world of the imagination?
3. What happens in the assumption where the outcast returns?
4. According to Hugo, what can happen to facts when writing a poem?
5. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.
6. Describe the schoolhouse in the triggering town and who teaches there.
7. 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?
8. What does the hermit in one assumption do to fill his days?
9. In Hugo's opinion, why do most students respect Roethke as a teacher?
10. Describe Hugo's advice on hard work when writing poetry.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the advantages pointed out by Hugo of making up the rules as the poet goes along? What should making up rules do for the poet?
Essay Topic 2
How does Ghiselin present an uncompromising picture of what one has done in the poem, "Rattlesnake"? In Hugo's estimation, what effect does his use of multi-syllabic and single-syllabic words have on the impact of different parts of the poem?
Essay Topic 3
What is Hugo's experience in the grassy field near Spinazzola? How does a psychoanalyst categorize his experience years later? What is the poem that he writes about Spinazzola about?
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