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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ci Vediamo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?
(a) A hangar.
(b) An ammunition shed.
(c) A pumphouse.
(d) An abandoned rail car.

2. Which profession does Hugo believe should be able to retire in twenty years with a full pension like policemen, firemen, and service personnel?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Fiction writers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Bankers.

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

4. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.
(a) Students.
(b) Failures.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Ancestors.

5. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?
(a) New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.

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

4. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.

5. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.

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