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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. If a person can't think small when writing a poem, Hugo suggests that he try _____.
(a) Joining NASA.
(b) Thinking big.
(c) Philosphy or social criticism.
(d) Running for president.

2. Hugo says that for Roehtke, the rules are simply one way to help a poet get to _____.
(a) A master's degree.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The gold.
(d) Publish.

3. Hugo advises that at all times, the student must keep his _____ on.
(a) Crap detector.
(b) Game face.
(c) Ability to copy.
(d) Convention bucking device.

4. What is the term Hugo uses for an imperfect or partial rhyme?
(a) Oblique rhyme.
(b) Half rhyme.
(c) Off rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

5. Hugo states that when he was in graduate school, a published scholar who wrote clearly was referred to as a _____.
(a) Communist.
(b) Philistine.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Popularizer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.

2. Whose "albatross" does Hugo mention when speaking of the poetry student's ability to fly?

3. Whose coarse teasing and ridicule does Hugo say the poet must endure to be his beautiful self?

4. Hugo says that once a language exists only to convey information, it is _____.

5. One assumption has the _____ being run by a kind man who lets kids in for free when nobody is looking.

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