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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the British colonel remind Hugo of?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) John Wayne.
(c) Herbert Marshall.
(d) W.C. Fields.

2. Hugo feels that there is a tendency for literary professors to establish and maintain _____ over their students.
(a) Emotional advantages.
(b) Absolutely no control.
(c) Strict control.
(d) Economic advantages.

3. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Roethke.
(d) Silverstein.

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

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

6. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1985.

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

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

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

10. Hugo's fear when he is bombing makes it hard concentration difficult and he didn't trust _____.
(a) His captain.
(b) The equipment.
(c) The strategy.
(d) His eyesight.

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

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

13. Which profession does Hugo believe should be able to retire in twenty years with a full pension like policemen, firemen, and service personnel?
(a) Poets.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Bankers.
(d) Fiction writers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.

2. What is the term Hugo uses for adding unnecessary words to a form?

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

4. To what do academic professors attribute the sudden popularity of creative writing classes, according to Hugo?

5. Hugo says to hope hard to always fall short of _____.

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