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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hugo's squadron is assigned to fly gasoline to a British Spitfire base in _____.
(a) Lyon.
(b) Nice.
(c) Cambria.
(d) Paris.

2. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Hope Daniels.
(c) Joe Lewis.
(d) Jerry Lewis.

3. What other types of writing does Hugo say are already in English departments, making them the logical place to teach creative writing?
(a) Technical and dramatic.
(b) Comedic and journalistic.
(c) Critical and expository.
(d) Conceptual and fictional.

4. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.
(a) Success.
(b) Failure.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Mastery.

5. Hugo guesses that ____ of his ex-students are now publishing.
(a) All.
(b) Ten.
(c) Over a hundred.
(d) Forty.

6. What is the name of the supply officer that doesn't supply Hugo's squadron with enough blankets?
(a) Captain Garrity.
(b) Captain Sommers.
(c) Captain Shanks.
(d) Captain Simmons.

7. What is the name of the bombardier that attended Stanford University for a year or two?
(a) John Seagal.
(b) Jeffrey Calhoun.
(c) Bob Mills.
(d) Barry McCormack.

8. Who is the creative writing teacher credited for teaching Eliot, Williams, Hemingway, and Yeats?
(a) Pound.
(b) Valery.
(c) Roehtke.
(d) Thompson.

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

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

11. What word does Hugo say should only be used as a transitive verb for at least fifteen years?
(a) Envy.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Need.

12. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.
(a) Emotional advantages.
(b) Absolutely no control.
(c) Strict control.
(d) Economic advantages.

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

14. Who does Hugo say proposes that all literary teachers take creative writing?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) John Ericksson.
(d) George Garrett.

15. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Silverstein.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Roethke.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pencils does Hugo recommend sharpening to have on hand to write with?

2. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?

3. Hugo's fear when he is bombing makes it hard concentration difficult and he didn't trust _____.

4. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?

5. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?

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