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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?
(a) Ten words.
(b) Seventeen words.
(c) Seven words.
(d) Fifty words.

2. In the Hugo's opinion, a poet must have a streak of _____.
(a) Common sense.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Genius.
(d) Luck.

3. Hugo says that Roethke only wanted _____ in his class because you can teach them.
(a) Graduate students.
(b) Senior citizens.
(c) Innocent young chicks.
(d) Brave young men.

4. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?
(a) Phrase.
(b) End-stop.
(c) Didactic moment.
(d) Breath mark.

5. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?
(a) Alan Ginsberg.
(b) Theodore Roethke.
(c) Madeline De Frees.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "albatross" does Hugo mention when speaking of the poetry student's ability to fly?

2. How many people are in jail in one assumption?

3. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

4. Hugo states that an act of imagination is an act of _____.

5. What other types of writing does Hugo say are already in English departments, making them the logical place to teach creative writing?

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