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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1973.

5. Hugo believes that a poet must take _____of a triggering town.
(a) Care.
(b) Total control.
(c) Stock.
(d) Emotional possession.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas, Kunitz, and Bogan are described by Hugo as having _____ as determined by Roethke when he read their work aloud.

2. Which clever, witty writer is described by Hugo as being able to conform the music of poetry to truth effectively?

3. Hugo advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.

4. Hugo states that all art that has endured has an element of _____.

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

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