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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.
(a) Interesting.
(b) Dictating.
(c) Dying.
(d) Evolved.

3. All the poets that Hugo knows have an unusually strong _____.
(a) Moral sense.
(b) Id.
(c) Need for approval.
(d) Taste for danger.

4. How much snow hits the town every year in one assumption?
(a) None.
(b) Four inches.
(c) Twenty feet.
(d) Seventy-seven inches.

5. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.
(a) Rigidity.
(b) Fluidity.
(c) Tenderness.
(d) Clandestine behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that if one is a private poet, then one's vocabulary is limited to one's _____.

2. Why does Hugo think his idea of the triggering town causes ideas for poems to come out more easily?

3. At the risk of violating the facts, Hugo believes that the subject of a poem should serve _____.

4. Hugo teaches that one way of getting into the world of the imagination is to focus on the play rather than the _____ of words.

5. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?

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