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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.
(a) Success.
(b) Mastery.
(c) Failure.
(d) Popularity.

2. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?
(a) Vapid consumerism.
(b) Class deterioration.
(c) Rapid dehumanization.
(d) Wholesale changes.

3. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Maryland.
(d) West Virginia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?

2. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?

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

4. When writing a poem, what does Hugo suggest leaves a person more options?

5. After Hugo reclaims his past in the war, he and his wife become tourists and visit _____ in Lecce.

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