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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous poet does Hugo say embodies a self superior to the self during the writing of a poem?
(a) Roethke.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Valery.
(d) Ginsberg.

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

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

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

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

6. Hugo prefers the _____ tone he employs to a lot of qualifiers when giving poets rules to write by.
(a) Dogmatic.
(b) Pedagogic.
(c) Axiomatic.
(d) Contemplative.

7. Whose "albatross" does Hugo mention when speaking of the poetry student's ability to fly?
(a) Voltaire's
(b) Constantine's.
(c) Mallarme's.
(d) Baudelaire's.

8. How many pencils does Hugo recommend sharpening to have on hand to write with?
(a) One.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

9. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?
(a) The USO club.
(b) The army base.
(c) The officer's club.
(d) The Red Cross.

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

11. In which town does Hugo experience what his psychoanalyst calls a moment of surrender?
(a) Lyon.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Spinazzola.
(d) Vienna.

12. What city does Hugo visit again in April, 1964?
(a) Cerignola.
(b) Munich.
(c) Milan.
(d) Leicester..

13. Where does Hugo suggest placing a typed poem in order to feel pressure to work on it some more?
(a) In a drawer.
(b) On a mirror.
(c) In a pocket.
(d) On the wall.

14. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?
(a) "Summer People".
(b) "The Last Good Country".
(c) "Soldier's Home".
(d) An African Story".

15. Who do the G.I.'s stomp and whistle for when she comes onscreen in the movie that Hugo says is worse than bombardier?
(a) Betty Hutton.
(b) Jayne Mansfield.
(c) Martha O'Driscoll.
(d) Greta Garbo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo suggests that with the accumulated losses of knowns, the imagination is faced with the problem of preserving the world through _____.

2. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?

4. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.

5. In World War II, Hugo is a bombardier based in _____.

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