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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?
(a) Marvel.
(b) Kittridge.
(c) Auden.
(d) Herrick.

2. According to Hugo, Valery says that when words are used to convey information, they _____.
(a) Reanimate.
(b) Dissolve.
(c) Become true.
(d) Correlate.

3. Which Shakespeare play has Regan and Cornwall blinding Gloucester?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Twelfth Night.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Hamlet.

4. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?
(a) Words that start with vowels.
(b) Multisyllabic.
(c) Foreign words.
(d) Monosyllabic.

5. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
(a) Lack of inspiration.
(b) Problems.
(c) Longer length.
(d) Sudden ease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo believes that after a long time and a lot of writing, a poet can go back to places of _____.

2. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?

3. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.

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

5. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.

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