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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Hugo believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
(a) Triggering subject.
(b) Advantage.
(c) Stance.
(d) Lingusitic style.

4. Where have three prostitutes set up shop a quarter of a mile from Hugo's squadron?
(a) A pumphouse.
(b) An ammunition shed.
(c) A hangar.
(d) An abandoned rail car.

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

6. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.
(a) Natural.
(b) Abhorrent.
(c) Suspect.
(d) Faultless.

7. If creative writing teachers are doing their jobs, Hugo says they are learning from their_____.
(a) Ancestors.
(b) Failures.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Students.

8. Which famous poet does Hugo say informs and fills another body during the writing of a poem?
(a) Frost.
(b) Poe.
(c) Keats.
(d) Dickinson.

9. To what do academic professors attribute the sudden popularity of creative writing classes, according to Hugo?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Television.
(c) Change in dietary habits.
(d) Prosperity.

10. Hugo observes that the three prostitutes look so scroungy that one might contract VD just ____.
(a) Saying hello.
(b) Looking at their photo.
(c) Walking past them.
(d) Touching their doorknob.

11. What color paper is, in Hugo's opinion, easy on the eyes?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Pink.
(c) Beige.
(d) Green.

12. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?
(a) Phrase.
(b) End-stop.
(c) Breath mark.
(d) Didactic moment.

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

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

15. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?

2. According to Hugo, _____ keeps alive a self deserving of rejection.

3. Hugo feels that true integrity is often willfully equated with _____.

4. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.

5. Which short story of Faulkner's has the protagonist, Snopes?

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