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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.
(a) Their grades.
(b) Critical acclaim.
(c) The reader.
(d) Money.

2. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
(a) Become impotent.
(b) Burn their rough drafts.
(c) Become arrogant.
(d) Use profanity.

3. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.
(a) South Africa.
(b) England.
(c) Greece.
(d) Thailand.

4. Hugo tells the poet not to worry about _____ when writing.
(a) Timing.
(b) Word sounds.
(c) Morality.
(d) Length.

5. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(b) Because it works for him.
(c) Because it opens up psychic channels.
(d) Because it is free of personal association.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.

2. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

3. Hugo believes that a public poet must be more intelligent than the reader so his _____ doesn't get in the way.

4. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?

5. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

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