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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 informs and fills another body during the writing of a poem?
(a) Poe.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Keats.
(d) Frost.

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

3. Who does Hugo say proposes that all literary teachers take creative writing?
(a) George Garrett.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) Ezra Pound.
(d) John Ericksson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Whose coarse teasing and ridicule does Hugo say the poet must endure to be his beautiful self?
(a) Uneducated fools'.
(b) Philistine sailors'.
(c) Dynastic youth's.
(d) The lower self's.

13. The British colonel that Hugo meets in Europe on his tour of duty is what member of the British aristocracy?
(a) An earl.
(b) A count.
(c) A baron.
(d) A duke.

14. Hugo feels that the English language is deficient in _____.
(a) Honest adjectives.
(b) Effective homophones.
(c) Synonyms.
(d) Good full rhymes.

15. What is the name of the only celebrity that comes to visit Hugo's squadron during the war?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Hope Daniels.
(c) Joe Lewis.
(d) Jerry Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the poetry term for a rhythmic or syntactic pause at the end of a line of poetry?

2. Hugo is distrustful of Eliot and Roethke because late in their careers the announced that they were _____.

3. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?

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

5. Hugo believes that worthwhile things can't be _____.

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