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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Defense of Creative-Writing Classes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.
(a) Obsessions.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Training.
(d) Intellect.

2. Where do the grocer's children live in one assumption?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Toledo.

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

4. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?
(a) Seven words.
(b) Ten words.
(c) Fifty words.
(d) Seventeen words.

5. People who hated the town left long ago and are wealthy in ____ in one assumption.
(a) Greece.
(b) England.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Thailand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that poets don't take things as seriously as other people?

2. Hugo feels that the English language is deficient in _____.

3. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.

4. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?

5. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.

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