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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which town does Hugo experience what his psychoanalyst calls a moment of surrender?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Lyon.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Spinazzola.

2. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Babies.
(c) Chorus girls.
(d) Large rats.

3. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.
(a) Internalization.
(b) Calculation.
(c) Externalization.
(d) Reiteration.

4. What emotion does Hugo say is impossible for the poet because he has written every poem he loves?
(a) Rage.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Self-loathing.

5. Hugo feels that the English language is deficient in _____.
(a) Effective homophones.
(b) Honest adjectives.
(c) Good full rhymes.
(d) Synonyms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hugo prefers the _____ tone he employs to a lot of qualifiers when giving poets rules to write by.

3. The surrounding country in one assumption is _____.

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

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