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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of Reothke's teaching does Hugo find to be evidence of his cruelty?
(a) His finals.
(b) His critiques.
(c) His tardiness.
(d) His slothful explanations.

2. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?
(a) Because it is free of personal association.
(b) Because it works for him.
(c) Because one has intense attachment to it.
(d) Because it opens up psychic channels.

3. Hugo states that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from _____.
(a) Convention.
(b) Plagiarism.
(c) The initiating subject.
(d) Writer's block.

4. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Pink.
(c) Beige.
(d) Yellow.

5. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.
(a) Action star.
(b) Outcast.
(c) Old farmhand.
(d) Army deserter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the people in one assumption do to ward off boredom?

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say informs and fills another body during the writing of a poem?

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

5. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.

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