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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Hugo say is the most important feeling a poet has?
(a) How he feels about himself.
(b) How he feels about love.
(c) How he feels about loss.
(d) How he feels about the world.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the term Hugo uses for adding unnecessary words to a form?
(a) Clarifying.
(b) Overfilling.
(c) Padding.
(d) Complicating.

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

13. Hugo prefers the _____ tone he employs to a lot of qualifiers when giving poets rules to write by.
(a) Axiomatic.
(b) Dogmatic.
(c) Pedagogic.
(d) Contemplative.

14. When Hugo would hitchhike to Foggia, where does he sit alone drinking coffee, eating cookies, and listening to records?
(a) The USO club.
(b) The army base.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The officer's club.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the minimum sentence length Hugob advises having in a poem?

3. In what year does Hugo go back to visit his World War II stomping grounds in Europe?

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

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

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