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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Pound.
(c) Auden.
(d) Roethke.

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

3. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Himself.
(c) Auden.
(d) Pound.

4. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
(a) The Classical era.
(b) The Neo-Classical era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Post-modern era.

5. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.
(a) In the title.
(b) In the first paragraph.
(c) At the very end.
(d) At the beginning of the denouement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?

2. Hugo believes that if if a good poem comes out as a result of the triggering town, the town will become the poet's _____.

3. Specifically, Hugo asks students never to worry about _____.

4. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.

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

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