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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
(a) Harvard Young Poets' Society.
(b) Boston Review.
(c) Brick & Mortar Review.
(d) Yale Series of Young Poets.

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

3. Hugo states that formal verse can help a young poet locate things to say, and can also _____ him to say things he wouldn't say.
(a) Obligate.
(b) Forbid.
(c) Discourage.
(d) Encourage.

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

5. What is the name of the bombardier that attended Stanford University for a year or two?
(a) Jeffrey Calhoun.
(b) John Seagal.
(c) Bob Mills.
(d) Barry McCormack.

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

7. What is the name of the supply officer that doesn't supply Hugo's squadron with enough blankets?
(a) Captain Simmons.
(b) Captain Shanks.
(c) Captain Garrity.
(d) Captain Sommers.

8. According to Hugo, _____ keeps alive a self deserving of rejection.
(a) Sadism.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Self-pity.
(d) Self-loathing.

9. What is it called when a poet restates the same idea in a different way?
(a) Being sarcastic.
(b) Being redundant.
(c) Being clear.
(d) Being clever.

10. 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 the wall.
(c) On a mirror.
(d) In a pocket.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hugo that the imagination has an impulse to create unknowns out of knowns?

2. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?

3. What emotion does Hugo say is impossible for the poet because he has written every poem he loves?

4. What does Hugo say that Auden believes is the nemesis of American writers?

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

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