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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Statements of Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?
(a) Neruda.
(b) Auden.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Lowell.

4. Which famous poet does Hugo name as having the notion of the mask during the writing of a poem?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Cummings.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Plath.

5. Which famous poet does Hugo say informs and fills another body during the writing of a poem?
(a) Frost.
(b) Keats.
(c) Poe.
(d) Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.

2. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?

3. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.

4. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?

5. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?

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