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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. Hugo teaches that what type of words soften the impact of language?
(a) Multisyllabic.
(b) Foreign words.
(c) Words that start with vowels.
(d) Monosyllabic.

2. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?
(a) Salal.
(b) Salmonberry.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Royal purple.

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

4. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.
(a) Raw talent.
(b) Formal training.
(c) Experience.
(d) Accumulated technique.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one assumption, Hugo is an _____ who returns to the town.

2. Hugo suggests the poet finish the poem first, then worry about being _____.

3. Which colleague of Hugo's points out that "if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self"?

4. What instrument does Lou McGarrity play?

5. Hugo states that people take their identities from their _____.

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