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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Convention.
(b) Plagiarism.
(c) The initiating subject.
(d) Writer's block.

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

3. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?
(a) "Jealousy".
(b) "Barn Burning".
(c) "Mirrors of Charle Street".
(d) "Home".

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.

2. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?

3. Which poet tells Hugo that he has a hard time breaking Roethke's hold on him?

4. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.

5. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?

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