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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Defense of Creative-Writing Classes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the world of imagination, Hugo believes that all things _____.
(a) Transcend.
(b) Are equal.
(c) Are dull.
(d) Belong.

2. Whose coarse teasing and ridicule does Hugo say the poet must endure to be his beautiful self?
(a) Philistine sailors'.
(b) Uneducated fools'.
(c) The lower self's.
(d) Dynastic youth's.

3. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?
(a) Seventeen words.
(b) Fifty words.
(c) Ten words.
(d) Seven words.

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

5. The town druggist on an assumption is _____.
(a) A drug dealer on the side.
(b) An ex-football player.
(c) A womanizer.
(d) An alcoholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?

2. The purpose of the triggering town is to serve as a _____ for the poem.

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

4. Yeats is noted by Hugo as saying that, "as a writer, your most important arguments are with _____".

5. Hugo offers one way of getting off the triggering subject by suggesting that one use words for the sake of their _____.

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