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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Hugo say should only be used as a transitive verb for at least fifteen years?
(a) Envy.
(b) Hate.
(c) Love.
(d) Need.

2. Where is Captain Joel O. Moe from?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Maryland.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is the maximum sentence length Hugo advises having in a poem?
(a) Ten words.
(b) Seven words.
(c) Seventeen words.
(d) Fifty words.

9. Which famous poet does Hugo say becomes someone else during the writing of a poem?
(a) Lowell.
(b) Neruda.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Auden.

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

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

12. Where has Hugo worked that he says had little hostility between creative writers and academics?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Montana.
(c) Purdue.
(d) Washington.

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

14. Hugo suggests that if one wants to change what is on the page, try using the same words and play with the _____.
(a) Punctuation.
(b) Capitalization.
(c) Spelling.
(d) Syntax.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which town does Hugo experience what his psychoanalyst calls a moment of surrender?

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

4. The British colonel that Hugo meets in Europe on his tour of duty is what member of the British aristocracy?

5. What does Hugo call the tearing down of buildings, the building of new housing, etc., as being one problem for modern poets?

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