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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. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?

2. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

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

4. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.

5. The two prostitutes in an assumption are nice to everyone but _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Hugo say is Roethke's strength as a teacher?

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. In Hugo's opinion, why do most students respect Roethke as a teacher?

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

10. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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