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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. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?
(a) Anne Johnstone.
(b) Jonathon Baker Reese.
(c) Belle McKensie.
(d) Eliot Renner.

2. Hugo says that creative writers are privileged because they can write _____.
(a) Declarative sentences.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Standing on their heads.
(d) Imperative sentenes.

3. How many people are in jail in one assumption?
(a) Ten.
(b) Sixty people over sixty.
(c) One.
(d) Half the town.

4. What is the term Hugo uses for adding unnecessary words to a form?
(a) Padding.
(b) Complicating.
(c) Clarifying.
(d) Overfilling.

5. What is poorly maintained in one assumption, causing only a few people to attend events there?
(a) The ballpark.
(b) The high school gymnasium.
(c) The college.
(d) The performing arts center.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The town doctor in one of the assumptions is _____.

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

5. Hugo uses single-syllabic words to show _____.

(see the answer key)

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