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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?
(a) How he feels about the world.
(b) How he feels about himself.
(c) How he feels about love.
(d) How he feels about loss.

2. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
(a) Triggering subject.
(b) Advantage.
(c) Stance.
(d) Lingusitic style.

3. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.
(a) Mistakes.
(b) Students.
(c) Failures.
(d) Ancestors.

4. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.
(a) Orientations.
(b) Meanings.
(c) Origins.
(d) Sounds.

5. Which famous poet does Hugo say embodies a self superior to the self during the writing of a poem?
(a) Ginsberg.
(b) Roethke.
(c) Valery.
(d) Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Hugo say is impossible for the poet because he has written every poem he loves?

2. One of Hugo's assumptions states that the name of the triggering town must appear _____.

3. On which day of the week does the wind stop blowing in one assumption?

4. What poem does Hugo describe as being "not good Hopkins"?

5. Hugo thinks it is easier to write when you can ignore relative values and go with the _____ of words.

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