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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which punctuation mark is strictly banned by Hugo?
(a) Colons.
(b) Quotation marks.
(c) Semicolons.
(d) Exclamation points.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Hugo believes that worthwhile things can't be _____.
(a) Forsaken.
(b) Justified.
(c) Defined.
(d) Carried out.

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

14. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?
(a) Alan Ginsberg.
(b) Theodore Roethke.
(c) Madeline De Frees.
(d) Walt Whitman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which short story of Hemingway's has the protagonist, Krebs?

2. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?

3. Hugo suggests that if one wants to change what is on the page, try using the same words and play with the _____.

4. What is the name of the bush that grows wild in the Pacific Northwest that Hugo uses as a local noun?

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

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