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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1955.

3. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
(a) Boston Review.
(b) Harvard Young Poets' Society.
(c) Brick & Mortar Review.
(d) Yale Series of Young Poets.

4. Hugo states that an act of imagination is an act of _____.
(a) Self-acceptance.
(b) God.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Faith.

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

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

7. Hugo feels that true integrity is often willfully equated with _____.
(a) Spite.
(b) Dullness.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Quietude.

8. What large target does Hugo miss bombing?
(a) Brenner Pass.
(b) Bohlen.
(c) Hitler's country estate.
(d) Versaille.

9. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?
(a) "Barn Burning".
(b) "Jealousy".
(c) "Mirrors of Charle Street".
(d) "Home".

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

11. Which famous poet does Hugo name as having the notion of the mask during the writing of a poem?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Cummings.
(c) Plath.
(d) Yeats.

12. A suggestion Hugo makes is to end more than half the lines and more than two-thirds of the sentences on _____.
(a) An exclamation.
(b) Words of one syllable.
(c) A dangling participle.
(d) A multisyllabic word.

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

14. After Hugo reclaims his past in the war, he and his wife become tourists and visit _____ in Lecce.
(a) Classical art galleries.
(b) Fountains.
(c) Baroque churches.
(d) Libraries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hugo suggest placing a typed poem in order to feel pressure to work on it some more?

2. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?

3. Who is Hugo's creative writing teacher at West Seattle High School?

4. Hugo feels that the English language is deficient in _____.

5. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?

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