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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?
(a) "Summer People".
(b) "The Last Good Country".
(c) An African Story".
(d) "Soldier's Home".

2. In one of Hugo's assumptions, _____ at the farmer's market is punishable by death.
(a) Eating mushrooms.
(b) Selling corn.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Bargaining.

3. 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) Auden.
(c) Herrick.
(d) Kittridge.

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

5. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Origins.
(b) Orientations.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Meanings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?

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

3. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.

4. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.

5. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.

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