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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo vaguely recalls a class in 1948 when Roehtke defended _____ as important to creativity.
(a) Devotion.
(b) Madness.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Piety.

2. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?
(a) Colons.
(b) Exclamation points.
(c) Quotation marks.
(d) Semicolons.

3. Which poet does Hugo believes appears to be usual when he is, in fact, a near-perfect example of the unusual in that he is one of the best poets out there?
(a) Roethke.
(b) William Stafford.
(c) Mark Strand.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

4. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.
(a) Emotional possession.
(b) Total control.
(c) Care.
(d) Stock.

5. Hugo hopes that the student reading his book learns to write like _____.
(a) Yeats.
(b) Himself.
(c) The author.
(d) Auden.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem by Ghiselin, the snake's dwelling is that of a _____.

2. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?

3. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?

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

5. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?

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